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Poll An Fhraoich
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2901
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2901 (2901)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Daviot And Dunlichity
- National Grid reference
- NH 7277 3966
- Latitude
- 57.42954
- Longitude
- -4.12065
- Altitude
- 155 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1882); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1963); Other (1970); Other (1972); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11879
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2885
- National record
- record NH 73 NW 3; monument 14120
- Wikidata
- Q31102669
Sources
References
- Cameron, D (1882) 'Notice of the Ancient circular dwellings, hill forts, and burial cairns of Strathnairn'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 16 (1881-2), 288-94