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East Kinnauld
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2785
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2785 (2785)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rogart
- National Grid reference
- NC 7421 0145
- Latitude
- 57.98453
- Longitude
- -4.12903
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Other (1909); Other (1966); Other (1981); Other (1993); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1861
- HER
- Highland HER MHG44718
- National record
- record NC 70 SW 17; monument 5971
- Wikidata
- Q31100634
Sources
References
- 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