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Dun Scriben
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2873
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2873 (2873)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Urquhart And Glenmoriston
- National Grid reference
- NH 4913 2358
- Latitude
- 57.27794
- Longitude
- -4.50416
- Altitude
- 214 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
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 Map Depiction (1871); Other (1957); Other (1964); Other (1970); Other (1979); Other (1995); Earthwork Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6220
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2699
- National record
- record NH 42 SE 3; monument 12321
- Wikidata
- Q31101658
Sources