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Sgarbach, Auchingill
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2832
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2832 (2832)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Canisbay
- National Grid reference
- ND 3729 6375
- Latitude
- 58.55736
- Longitude
- -3.07942
- Altitude
- 15 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 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North)
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
- Finds
- pottery and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Excavation (1897); Other (1910); Other (1965); Earthwork Survey (1971); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG608
- National record
- record ND 36 SE 5; monument 72044
- Wikidata
- Q31101069
Sources
References
- Batey, C E (1982) Caithness coastal survey 1982: interim reports 1980-2, typescript Durham University.
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 180)
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- 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