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Gilchrist
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2884
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2884 (2884)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Urray
- National Grid reference
- NH 5372 4932
- Latitude
- 57.51048
- Longitude
- -4.44329
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1977); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG9068
- National record
- record NH 54 NW 30; monument 12690
- Wikidata
- Q31101587
Sources