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Scarfskerry
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2816
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2816 (2816)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunnet
- National Grid reference
- ND 2564 7420
- Latitude
- 58.64936
- Longitude
- -3.28301
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Other (1910); Other (1965); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2253
- National record
- record ND 27 SE 5; monument 8878
- Wikidata
- Q31100609
Sources
References
- Batey, C E (1982) Caithness coastal survey 1982: interim reports 1980-2, typescript Durham University (Available in RCAHMS ).
- RCAHMS (1911) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Third report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Caithness. HMSO, London