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Phoineas Hill
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2887
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2887 (2887)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kiltarlity And Convinth
- National Grid reference
- NH 5335 4255
- Latitude
- 57.44957
- Longitude
- -4.44554
- Altitude
- 168 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1973); Other (1978); Other (1990)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4729
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3410
- National record
- record NH 54 SW 11; monument 12735
- Wikidata
- Q31101815
Sources