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Dun Fhamhair
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2875
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2875 (2875)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmorack
- National Grid reference
- NH 4842 4707
- Latitude
- 57.48851
- Longitude
- -4.53041
- Altitude
- 328 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 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Other (1886); Other (1957); Other (1970); Other (1979); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5212
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2652
- National record
- record NH 44 NE 7; monument 12377
- Wikidata
- Q31101701
Sources
References
- Wallace, T (1886) 'Notes on ancient remains in the Beauly Valley, Inverness-shire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 20 (1985-6), 340-55