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Torvean
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2898
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2898 (2898)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Inverness And Bona
- National Grid reference
- NH 6437 4315
- Latitude
- 57.45838
- Longitude
- -4.26239
- Altitude
- 70 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1880); Other (1917); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1960); Other (1970); Other (1975); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3806
- HER
- Highland HER MHG3749
- National record
- record NH 64 SW 2; monument 13549
- Wikidata
- Q31102242
Sources