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Dun Viden
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2804
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2804 (2804)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Farr
- National Grid reference
- NC 7265 5188
- Latitude
- 58.43671
- Longitude
- -4.18300
- Altitude
- 43 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Footprint
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metalworking and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1864); Other (1867); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Other (1909); Other (1938); Other (1960); Other (1978); Other (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1860
- HER
- Highland HER MHG11106
- National record
- record NC 75 SW 11; monument 6299
- Wikidata
- Q31101145
Sources
References
- Horsburgh, J (1868) Notes of Cromlechs, Duns, Hut-Circles, Chambered Cairns, and other Remains, in the County of Sutherland. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 7 (1866-8), 271-9
- 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
- Swanson, C B (1988) A contribution to the understanding of brochs, Unpublished Ph D thesis. University of Edinburgh