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Dun Dearduil
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2882
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2882 (2882)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dores
- National Grid reference
- NH 5262 2384
- Latitude
- 57.28148
- Longitude
- -4.44637
- Altitude
- 220 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
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1906); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1979); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11884
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3437
- National record
- record NH 52 SW 4; monument 12569
- Wikidata
- Q31101748
Sources
References
- Wallace, T (1906) 'Vitrified fort on Dundearduil'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 6 (1899-1906), 188-91