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Dun Davie
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2902
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2902 (2902)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Daviot And Dunlichity
- National Grid reference
- NH 7188 3930
- Latitude
- 57.42600
- Longitude
- -4.13530
- Altitude
- 288 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1824); Other (1882); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1970); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3301
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2889
- National record
- record NH 73 NW 11; monument 14107
- Wikidata
- Q31102735
Sources
References
- Anderson, G (1857) 'On certain vitrified (and unvitrified) forts in the neighbourhood of Loch Ness and the Moray Firth. In a letter to Dr Hibbert'. Archaeologia Scotica 4 (1857), 195-201
- 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
- Cotton, M A (1954) 'British camps with timber-laced ramparts'. Archaeol J 111 (1954), 26-105
- Hibbert, S (1857) 'Observations on the Theories which have been proposed to explain the Vitrified Forts of Scotland'. Archaeologia Scotica 4 (1857), 160-82
- Rees, T (1997) 'Dun Davie (Daviot & Dunlichity parish), Iron Age fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1997), 46