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Dunan Diarmid
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2748
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2748 (2748)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kintail
- National Grid reference
- NG 9395 2071
- Latitude
- 57.23067
- Longitude
- -5.41546
- Altitude
- 5 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 (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); Earthwork Survey (1895); Other (1969); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2856
- HER
- Highland HER MHG7450
- National record
- record NG 92 SW 1; monument 12016
- Wikidata
- Q31100092
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 184)