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Inverpolly
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2798
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2798 (2798)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lochbroom
- National Grid reference
- NC 0661 1551
- Latitude
- 58.08636
- Longitude
- -5.28206
- Altitude
- 23 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
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.39 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and vitrification
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1961); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1962); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG9136
- National record
- record NC 01 NE 1; monument 4481
- Wikidata
- Q31100285
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 149-50)
- Nisbet, H C (1974) 'A geological approach to vitrified forts, part I: the archaeological and scientific background'. Sci & Archaeol 12 (1974), 3-12
- Nisbet, H C (1975) 'A geological approach to vitrified forts, part II: bedrock and building stone'. Sci & Archaeol 15 (1975), 11