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Cromal Mount
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2904
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2904 (2904)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ardesier
- National Grid reference
- NH 7825 5552
- Latitude
- 57.57341
- Longitude
- -4.03724
- Altitude
- 46 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant, Cropmark, and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, arable, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1841); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1973); Excavation (1989); Earthwork Survey (1989); Other (1996); Other (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2823
- HER
- Highland HER MHG36068
- National record
- record NH 75 NE 29; monument 163552
- Wikidata
- Q31102835
Sources
References
- Carter, S (1989) 'Cromal Mount (Ardersier parish), motte, probable'. Disc Exc Scot (1989), 28
- Carter, S (1990) 'Assessment of a motte at Ardersier, Inverness District', Historic Scotland, Archaeological Operations and Conservation, Annual Report 1989, Edinburgh
- 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. Edinburgh