Location
- Atlas number
- SC2824 (2824)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunnet
- National Grid reference
- ND 2283 7404
- Latitude
- 58.64743
- Longitude
- -3.33136
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Other (1910); Other (1965); Other (1971); Other (1981); Earthwork Survey (1981); Earthwork Survey (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG1591
- National record
- record ND 27 SW 8; monument 8914
- Wikidata
- Q31100851
Sources
References
- Batey, C E (1982) Caithness coastal survey 1982: interim reports 1980-2, typescript Durham University.
- Coventry, M (2008) Castles of the Clans: the strongholds and seats of 750 Scottish families and clans. Musselburgh (p 100)
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- Mercer, R J (1981) Archaeological field survey in northern Scotland: volume II, 1980-81. University of Edinburgh, Department of Archaeology, Occasional Paper No. 7: 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