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Caisteal Rollach
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2897
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2897 (2897)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Inverness And Bona
- National Grid reference
- NH 6932 4076
- Latitude
- 57.43838
- Longitude
- -4.17868
- Altitude
- 205 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1911); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1971); Other (1978); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3778
- National record
- record NH 64 SE 34; monument 13517
- Wikidata
- Q31101716
Sources
References
- Mackay, W (1911) Life in Inverness in the Sixteenth Century (Map by J Fraser)