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Eilean Nan Caorach
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2779
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2779 (2779)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Durness
- National Grid reference
- NC 3509 7149
- Latitude
- 58.60006
- Longitude
- -4.83973
- Altitude
- 49 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 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1971); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1980); Other (2000); Other (2001); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG12069
- National record
- record NC 37 SE 1; monument 4849
- Wikidata
- Q31099698
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- Lieu, A (2000) Cape Wrath Naval Bombing Range: Operation Auk - An Archaeological Update
- Street, R (2001) Cape Wrath Expedition 2001: Operation Auk Archaeological Survey