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Aodann Mhor
Highland, Scotland · Atlas SC2782
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2782 (2782)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Durness
- National Grid reference
- NC 4076 6922
- Latitude
- 58.58181
- Longitude
- -4.74059
- 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 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1971); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1977); Other (1992)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5392
- HER
- Highland HER MHG11939
- National record
- record NC 46 NW 5; monument 4952
- Wikidata
- Q31100545
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1971) 'Durness, possible monastic settlement'. Disc Exc Scot (1971), 44
- Lamb, R G (1973) 'Coastal settlements of the north'. Scot Archaeol Forum 5 (1973), 76-98