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Mains of Aberarder
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2891
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2891 (2891)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Daviot And Dunlichity
- National Grid reference
- NH 6235 2486
- Latitude
- 57.29341
- Longitude
- -4.28590
- Altitude
- 280 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11541
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3473
- National record
- record NH 62 SW 1; monument 13106
- Wikidata
- Q31101963
Sources