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Am Baghan Galldair
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2746
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2746 (2746)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glenelg
- National Grid reference
- NG 8216 2075
- Latitude
- 57.22557
- Longitude
- -5.61040
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Earthwork Survey (1895); Other (1966); Earthwork Survey (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG5348
- National record
- record NG 82 SW 6; monument 11877
- Wikidata
- Q31099312
Sources
References
- Bogle, L (1895) 'Notes on some prehistoric structures in Glenelg and Kintail'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 29 (1894-5), 180-90
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 181)