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Dun Fionn
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2877
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2877 (2877)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kiltarlity And Convinth
- National Grid reference
- NH 4716 4290
- Latitude
- 57.45067
- Longitude
- -4.54880
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1825); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Earthwork Survey (1886); Other (1943); Other (1957); Other (1965); Other (1972); Other (1979); Other (1981); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2748
- National record
- record NH 44 SE 10; monument 12382
- Wikidata
- Q31101505
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