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Ord Hill, Kessock
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2895
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2895 (2895)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Knockbain
- National Grid reference
- NH 6640 4910
- Latitude
- 57.51239
- Longitude
- -4.23184
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1824); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Earthwork Survey (1918); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1965); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1974); Other (1978); Other (1993); Other (2002); Earthwork Survey (
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2499
- HER
- Highland HER MHG8258
- National record
- record NH 64 NE 37; monument 13389
- Wikidata
- Q31102105
Sources
References
- Anderson, G (1857) 'Description of the Ord Hill of Kessock'. Archaeologia Scotica 4 (1857), 191-4
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Headland Archaeology (2011) Knock Farril, Fodderty and Ord Hill, Knockbain: topographic survey for the Forestry Commission. Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd
- Mackenzie, G (1857) 'Notice of the Ord Hill of Kessock. 22d December 1824'. Archaeologia Scotica 4 (1857), 194-5
- Wallace, T (1918) 'Notes on the parish of Petty'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 8 (1912-18), 87-136
- Woodham, A A (1955) 'A survey of prehistoric monuments in the Black Isle'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 88 (1953-55), 65-93