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Tordarroch
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2892
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2892 (2892)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Daviot And Dunlichity
- National Grid reference
- NH 6766 3341
- Latitude
- 57.37192
- Longitude
- -4.20234
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Excavation (1975); Other (1989); Other (1992); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3937
- National record
- record NH 63 SE 29; monument 13210
- Wikidata
- Q31101671
Sources
References
- Wedderburn and Grime, L M M and D M (1975) 'Strathnairn, Tordarroch, fort?'. Disc Exc Scot (1975), 26
- Wood, J (2005) 'Tordarroch, Highland (Daviot & Dunlichity parish), survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 6 (2005), 79