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Ben Griam Beg
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2787
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2787 (2787)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Farr
- National Grid reference
- NC 8309 4116
- Latitude
- 58.34349
- Longitude
- -3.99884
- Altitude
- 580 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1 ha, 2.3 ha
- Footprint
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Other (1909); Other (1934); Other (1960); Other (1977); Other (1982); Earthwork Survey (1988); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1836
- HER
- Highland HER MHG9658
- National record
- record NC 84 SW 1; monument 6792
- Wikidata
- Q31100700
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 158)
- Mercer, R (1991) 'The survey of a hilltop enclosure on Ben Griam Beg, Caithness and Sutherland District, Highland Region'. 140- 52 in Hanson, W S and Slater, E A eds (1991) Scottish Archaeology; New Perceptions. AUP: Aberdeen
- 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
- Ralston and Smith, I and J S (1982) 'Ben Griam Beg (Kildonan p) fort, settlement'. Disc Exc Scot (1982), 16
- Ralston and Smith, I and J S (1983) 'High altitude settlement on Ben Griam Beg, Sutherland'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 113 (1983), 636-8