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Kilphedir
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2797
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2797 (2797)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildonan
- National Grid reference
- NC 9943 1891
- Latitude
- 58.14771
- Longitude
- -3.71023
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Footprint
- 0.33 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1864); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Other (1909); Other (1938); Other (1960); Other (1963); Earthwork Survey (1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1870
- HER
- Highland HER MHG9856
- National record
- record NC 91 NE 27; monument 7000
- Wikidata
- Q31100999
Sources
References
- Joass, J M (1864) 'Two days' diggings in Sutherlandshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 5 (1862-4), 242-7
- 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
- Stuart, J (1868) Report to the Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, appointed to arrange for the Application of a Fund left by the late Mr A Henry Rhind, for Excavating Early Remains. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 7 (1866-8), 289-307