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Caisteal An Dunriachaidh
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2894
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2894 (2894)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dores
- National Grid reference
- NH 6005 3165
- Latitude
- 57.35385
- Longitude
- -4.32778
- Altitude
- 265 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.07 ha, 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1857); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Other (1875); Earthwork Survey (1918); Earthwork Survey (1943); Other (1957); Other (1970); Earthwork Survey (1974); Other (1992); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11817
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3956
- National record
- record NH 63 SW 49; monument 13283
- Wikidata
- Q31102053
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Jolly W (1880) 'Excursions to Strathnairn'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 1 (1875-80), 27-36
- Wallace, T (1918) 'Notes on the parish of Petty'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 8 (1912-18), 87-136