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Dun Creich
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2900
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2900 (2900)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Creich
- National Grid reference
- NH 6510 8824
- Latitude
- 57.86330
- Longitude
- -4.27545
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.12 ha, 0.45 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and vitrification
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1793); Other (1834); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); Other (1909); Other (1935); Other (1951); Other (1963); Other (1969); Other (1980)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1856
- HER
- Highland HER MHG10024
- National record
- record NH 68 NE 1; monument 13808
- Wikidata
- Q31102633
Sources
References
- Cotton, M A (1954) 'British camps with timber-laced ramparts'. Archaeol J 111 (1954), 26-105 (p 78)
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- RCAHMS (1911) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Second report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Sutherland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
- Stat Acct (Date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99