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Dun Garbhlaich
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2874
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2874 (2874)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmorack
- National Grid reference
- NH 4661 4657
- Latitude
- 57.48342
- Longitude
- -4.56026
- Altitude
- 318 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
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1943); Other (1957); Other (1964); Other (1970); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2422
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2654
- National record
- record NH 44 NE 5; monument 12375
- Wikidata
- Q31101685
Sources
References
- Wallace, T (1886) 'Notes on ancient remains in the Beauly Valley, Inverness-shire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 20 (1985-6), 340-55
- Wallace, T (1921) 'Archaeological notes'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 8 (1921), 119