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Loch Thurnaig
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2747
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2747 (2747)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gairloch
- National Grid reference
- NG 8627 8333
- Latitude
- 57.78855
- Longitude
- -5.59732
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1886); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1994); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG7570
- National record
- record NG 88 SE 4; monument 11985
- Wikidata
- Q31099334
Sources
References
- Dixon, J H (1886) Gairloch in north west Ross-shire: its records, traditions inhabitants and natural history with a guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree. Edinburgh