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Castle Kitchie
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2880
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2880 (2880)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dores
- National Grid reference
- NH 5386 2515
- Latitude
- 57.29357
- Longitude
- -4.42671
- Altitude
- 215 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1929); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3449
- National record
- record NH 52 NW 5; monument 12549
- Wikidata
- Q31101545
Sources
References
- Fraser-Tytler, N (1925) 'Tales of old days on the Aldourie estate'. Trans Gaelic Soc Inverness 32 (1924-5), 144-57