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An Tornaidh Bhuidhe
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2790
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2790 (2790)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Farr
- National Grid reference
- NC 8670 6617
- Latitude
- 58.56885
- Longitude
- -3.94961
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Other (1909); Other (1960); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (1977); Earthwork Survey (1980); Other (1981); Earthwork Survey (2004)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG9739
- National record
- record NC 86 NE 3; monument 6856
- Wikidata
- Q31099998
Sources
References
- 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. Site 237.
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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