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Castledownie
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2905
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2905 (2905)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rosemarkie
- National Grid reference
- NH 7788 6400
- Latitude
- 57.64939
- Longitude
- -4.04785
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Other (1955); Other (1970); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG8746
- National record
- record NH 76 SE 4; monument 14517
- Wikidata
- Q31101859
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- Woodham, A A (1955) 'A survey of prehistoric monuments in the Black Isle', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 88 (1953-5), 65-93