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Torr Dhuin
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2865
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2865 (2865)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Boleskine And Abertarf
- National Grid reference
- NH 3487 0695
- Latitude
- 57.12379
- Longitude
- -4.72936
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.02 ha, 0.06 ha
- Footprint
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1769); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Other (1915); Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1957); Other (1969); Other (1970); Other (1974); Other (1979); Earthwork Survey (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 794
- HER
- Highland HER MHG44720
- National record
- record NH 30 NW 1; monument 12212
- Wikidata
- Q31101623
Sources
References
- Cotton, M A (1954) 'British camps with timber-laced ramparts'. Archaeol J 111 (1954), 26-105 (p 78)
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Headland Archaeology Ltd (2011) A Topographic Survey of Five Pictish Forts in the Highlands. Report to the Forestry Commission
- Pennant, T A (1772), A Tour in Scotland MDCCLXIX (2nd ed). R White: London
- Ross, A (1915) 'Dun-Dhearduil and Tor-Duin hill forts'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 7, 23-7
- Wallace, T (1921) 'Archaeological notes'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 8, 106-7