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Bay of Girston
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2829
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2829 (2829)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wick
- National Grid reference
- ND 3636 4737
- Latitude
- 58.41014
- Longitude
- -3.09083
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 0.07 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1971); Other (1972); Other (1981); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2039
- National record
- record ND 34 NE 6; monument 8959
- Wikidata
- Q31100976
Sources
References
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford