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Cnoc An Duin
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2899
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2899 (2899)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Logie Easter
- National Grid reference
- NH 6968 7687
- Latitude
- 57.76261
- Longitude
- -4.19211
- Altitude
- 275 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.6 ha, 2.2 ha
- Footprint
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Other (1899); Earthwork Survey (1958); Other (1970); Other (1977); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG8188
- National record
- record NH 67 NE 1; monument 13710
- Wikidata
- Q31101730
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Feachem, R W (1971) 'Unfinished hill-forts', in Hill, D and Jesson, M (eds) The Iron Age and its hill-forts: papers presented to Sir Mortimer Wheeler on the occasion of his eightieth year. Southampton