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West Murkle
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2825
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2825 (2825)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Thurso
- National Grid reference
- ND 1579 6987
- Latitude
- 58.60868
- Longitude
- -3.45107
- 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 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- 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 (1971); Other (1981)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG1399
- National record
- record ND 16 NE 7; monument 8424
- Wikidata
- Q31100871
Sources
References
- 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
- 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. Third report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Caithness. HMSO, London