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Altanduin
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2806
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2806 (2806)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildonan
- National Grid reference
- NC 8097 2605
- Latitude
- 58.20721
- Longitude
- -4.02728
- Altitude
- 155 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 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Other (1909); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG45706
- National record
- record NC 82 NW 4; monument 6692
- Wikidata
- Q31100450
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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