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Brae of Achnahaird
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2802
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2802 (2802)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lochbroom
- National Grid reference
- NC 0170 1380
- Latitude
- 58.06886
- Longitude
- -5.36374
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.01 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
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 (1974); Other (1994); Other (2002)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG44722
- National record
- record NC 01 SW 3; monument 4489
- Wikidata
- Q31100322
Sources
References
- Long, A (2003) 'Assessment survey: Ullapool to Lochinver'. In Dawson, T (2003) Coastal archaeology and erosion in Scotland, Edinburgh (p 93)