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Poll Gorm
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2810
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2810 (2810)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Latheron
- National Grid reference
- ND 1703 2949
- Latitude
- 58.24636
- Longitude
- -3.41511
- Altitude
- 30 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 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1982); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1983); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5073
- HER
- Highland HER MHG1066
- National record
- record ND 12 NE 3; monument 8032
- Wikidata
- Q31101365
Sources
References
- Batey, C E (1982) Caithness coastal survey 1982: interim reports 1980-2, typescript Durham University.