Location
- Atlas number
- SC2780 (2780)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kincardine (Sutherland)
- National Grid reference
- NC 4104 0088
- Latitude
- 57.96887
- Longitude
- -4.68899
- Altitude
- 47 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.15 ha, 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (East); Hornwork (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- metal, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1966); Excavation (1973); Excavation (1974); Other (1976); Other (1992)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5302
- HER
- Highland HER MHG44797
- National record
- record NC 40 SW 3; monument 4874
- Wikidata
- Q31100491
Sources
References
- Nisbet, H C (1973) 'Langwell Tor a' Chorcain: hill fort and vitrified dun'. Disc Exc Scot (1973), 48-9
- Nisbet, H C (1974) 'Langwell, Tor a' Chorain: vitrified dun'. Disc Exc Scot (1974), 59-60
- Nisbet, H C (1994) 'Excavation of a vitrified dun at Langwell, Strath Oykel, Sutherland'. Glasgow Archaeol J 19 (1994), 51-73