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Dun Mor, Cabrich
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2886
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2886 (2886)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kiltarlity And Convinth
- National Grid reference
- NH 5343 4290
- Latitude
- 57.45273
- Longitude
- -4.44442
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort, partial contour fort, and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.11 ha, 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, and vitrification
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, hillslope, and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1943); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1964); Other (1965); Other (1970); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2423
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3411
- National record
- record NH 54 SW 10; monument 12734
- Wikidata
- Q31101777
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Wallace, T (1918) 'Notes on the parish of Petty'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 8 (1912-18), 87-136