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Garrywhin
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2830
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2830 (2830)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wick
- National Grid reference
- ND 3125 4137
- Latitude
- 58.35556
- Longitude
- -3.17642
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1865); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Earthwork Survey (1871); Other (1910); Other (1935); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1967); Other (1976); Other (1983); Other (1997); Other (2000); Earthwork Survey (2004)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 548
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2199
- National record
- record ND 34 SW 3; monument 9034
- Wikidata
- Q31101568
Sources
References
- Anderson, J (1883a) Scotland in pagan times: the iron age: the Rhind lectures in archaeology for 1881. Edinburgh
- 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