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Culkein, An Dunan
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2777
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2777 (2777)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Assynt
- National Grid reference
- NC 0419 3400
- Latitude
- 58.25109
- Longitude
- -5.33855
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Footprint
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1909); Earthwork Survey (2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG12221
- National record
- record NC 03 SW 1; monument 4519
- Wikidata
- Q31099658
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 159)
- RCAHMS (1911) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Second report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Sutherland. HMSO: Edinburgh