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Duchary Rock
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2786
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2786 (2786)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clyne
- National Grid reference
- NC 8506 0481
- Latitude
- 58.01766
- Longitude
- -3.94728
- Altitude
- 235 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 5
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Blocked (North west); Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (South east); Other Forms (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1909); Other (1935); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961); Other (1975); Earthwork Survey (1975); Other (1990); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1854
- HER
- Highland HER MHG44137
- National record
- record NC 80 SE 3; monument 6535
- Wikidata
- Q31100673
Sources
References
- Close-Brooks, J (1995) The Highlands, Exploring Scotland's Heritage series (ed A Ritchie). HMSO: Edinburgh
- Page(s): (no. 81), 141 Held at RCAHMS A.1.4.HER
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 158)
- Hogg, A H A (1975) Hill-forts of Britain. London
- 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