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Larach Tigh Nam Fionn
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2866
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2866 (2866)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmorack
- National Grid reference
- NH 3064 2792
- Latitude
- 57.31040
- Longitude
- -4.81343
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1825); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Earthwork Survey (1943); Other (1957); Other (1964); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2622
- National record
- record NH 32 NW 2; monument 12235
- Wikidata
- Q31101213
Sources
References
- Mackenzie, G (1857) 'Researches in regard to the vitrified forts of Ross-shire, and other stations connected with them, where melted matter does not appear. Contained in a letter to Dr Hibbert, dated Coul, 1 September 1825'. Archaeologia Scotica 4 (1857), 186-7
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/