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Cnoc a' Chinn
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2883
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2883 (2883)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkhill
- National Grid reference
- NH 5976 4514
- Latitude
- 57.47484
- Longitude
- -4.34031
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1880); Other (1886); Other (1918); Other (1943); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1964); Other (1970); Other (1979); Other (1981); Other (2011)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3354
- National record
- record NH 54 NE 1; monument 12649
- Wikidata
- Q31101576
Sources
References
- Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 1880, 'The Bunchrew district (excursion to)'. 1 (1875-80), 79-82
- Wallace, T (1886) 'Notes on ancient remains in the Beauly Valley, Inverness-shire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 20 (1985-6), 340-55
- Wallace, T (1918) 'Notes on the parish of Petty'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 8 (1912-18)