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Buaile Oscar, Beinn Freiceadain
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2823
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2823 (2823)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Reay
- National Grid reference
- ND 0594 5574
- Latitude
- 58.47980
- Longitude
- -3.61468
- Altitude
- 239 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 3.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1750); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Other (1910); Other (1933); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1962); Earthwork Survey (1981); Earthwork Survey (1982); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 530
- HER
- Highland HER MHG783
- National record
- record ND 05 NE 18; monument 7632
- Wikidata
- Q31101518
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Mercer, R J (1985) Archaeological Field Survey in Northern Scotland Volume III 1982-1983. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology, Occasional Paper No. 11. Edinburgh
- 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