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An Dun, Clachtoll
Highland, Scotland · Atlas SC2793
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2793 (2793)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Assynt
- National Grid reference
- NC 0366 2784
- Latitude
- 58.19562
- Longitude
- -5.34236
- Altitude
- 10 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 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1909); Other (1935); Other (1960); Other (1974); Other (1980); Other (1984); Earthwork Survey (2008); Earthwork Survey (2010); Excavation (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1831
- HER
- Highland HER MHG13002
- National record
- record NC 02 NW 2; monument 4499
- Wikidata
- Q31100764
Sources
References
- Barber, J (2011) 'Clachtoll Broch _ Life and Death in Assynts Past Project, Highland (Assynt parish), conservation work'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser 12 (2011), 96-97
- Cavers, G and Hudson G (2010) Assynt's Hidden Lives; An archaeological survey of the parish. AOC Archaeology Group: Loanhead
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 174)
- MacKie, E W (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands, BAR British series 444(II), 444(1), 2 V. BAR: Oxford
- 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