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Allt na Criche
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2869
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2869 (2869)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Urquhart And Glenmoriston
- National Grid reference
- NH 4087 1849
- Latitude
- 57.22949
- Longitude
- -4.63761
- Altitude
- 250 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 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1964); Other (1979); Other (1987); Other (1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4567
- HER
- Highland HER MHG249
- National record
- record NH 41 NW 1; monument 12286
- Wikidata
- Q31101631
Sources