Home / Scotland / Highland / Urquhart Castle
Urquhart Castle
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2879
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2879 (2879)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Urquhart And Glenmoriston
- National Grid reference
- NH 5301 2855
- Latitude
- 57.32386
- Longitude
- -4.44268
- Altitude
- 27 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- vitrification and other burning
- Also recorded
- annex
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Other
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1906); Excavation (1929); Other (1956); Excavation (1983); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90309
- HER
- Highland HER MHG45241
- National record
- record NH 52 NW 3; monument 12547
- Wikidata
- Q31101720
Sources
References
- Alcock and Alcock, L and E A (1992) 'Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84; A, Excavations and other fieldwork at Forteviot, Perthshire, 1981; B, Excavations at Urquhart Castle, Inverness-shire, 1983; C, Excavations at Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, 1984'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 122 (1992), 215-87
- M'Hardy, A B (1906) 'On vitrified forts, with results of experiments . . . '. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 40 (1905-6), 136-50
- Simpson, W D (1929) Urquhart Castle. Privately printed