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Creagan An Tuirc
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2890
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2890 (2890)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Daviot And Dunlichity
- National Grid reference
- NH 6663 2909
- Latitude
- 57.33285
- Longitude
- -4.21712
- Altitude
- 263 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1978); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1992); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11493
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3390
- National record
- record NH 62 NE 7; monument 13079
- Wikidata
- Q31101933
Sources
References
- Meldrum, E (1978) 'Inverness, Creagan An Tuire: fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1978), 13