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An Dun, Baligill

Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2789

Location

Atlas number
SC2789 (2789)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Highland
Historic county
Sutherland
Parish, community, or townland
Farr
National Grid reference
NC 8566 6626
Latitude
58.56938
Longitude
-3.96753
Altitude
25 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
0
Enclosed area
0.03 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches

Landscape

Topographic position
coastal promontory
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Other (1909); Other (1960); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (1972); Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (1980); Earthwork Survey (2004)

Identifiers

HER
Highland HER MHG9744
National record
record NC 86 NE 2; monument 6851
Wikidata
Q31099974

Sources

References

  1. Mercer, R J (1981) Archaeological field survey in northern Scotland: volume II, 1980-81. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology, Occasional Paper No. 7: Edinburgh
  2. 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