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Corffhouse
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2885
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2885 (2885)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmorack
- National Grid reference
- NH 5135 4480
- Latitude
- 57.46917
- Longitude
- -4.47960
- Altitude
- 23 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Earthwork Survey (1886); Other (1957); Other (1971); Other (1972); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3195
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3401
- National record
- record NH 54 SW; monument 12745
- Wikidata
- Q31101751
Sources
References
- 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), 87-136