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Caisteal na Coille
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2808
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2808 (2808)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clyne
- National Grid reference
- NC 7957 1337
- Latitude
- 58.09301
- Longitude
- -4.04455
- Altitude
- 85 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1776); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Other (1880); Other (1909); Other (1935); Other (1963); Other (1964); Earthwork Survey (1976); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1843
- HER
- Highland HER MHG11156
- National record
- record NC 71 SE 13; monument 6056
- Wikidata
- Q31101172
Sources
References
- Cordiner, C (1780) Antiquities & Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant, Esqr. London
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 173)
- 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
- Mitchell, A (1881) 'Notice of Buildings designed for Defence on an Island in a Loch at Hogsetter, in Whalsay, Shetland'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 15 (1880-1), 305-15
- 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