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Holburn Head
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2826
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2826 (2826)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Thurso
- National Grid reference
- ND 1085 7155
- Latitude
- 58.62277
- Longitude
- -3.53672
- Altitude
- 33 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Other (1910); Other (1933); Other (1964); Other (1971); Other (1972); Other (1981); Earthwork Survey (1981); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 559
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2385
- National record
- record ND 17 SW 1; monument 8571
- Wikidata
- Q31101532
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 114)
- 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