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An Torr
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2871
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2871 (2871)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Urquhart And Glenmoriston
- National Grid reference
- NH 4517 2985
- Latitude
- 57.33291
- Longitude
- -4.57370
- Altitude
- 155 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
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
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1901); Other (1942); Other (1957); Other (1970); Other (1979); Other (1997); Earthwork Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2708
- National record
- record NH 42 NE 1; monument 12311
- Wikidata
- Q31101340
Sources