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Balmachree
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2903
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2903 (2903)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Petty
- National Grid reference
- NH 7409 4803
- Latitude
- 57.50500
- Longitude
- -4.10295
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1976); Other (1978); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5025
- HER
- Highland HER MHG2892
- National record
- record NH 74 NW 24; monument 14212
- Wikidata
- Q31102786
Sources