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Dun Evan
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2907
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2907 (2907)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Nairn
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cawdor
- National Grid reference
- NH 8275 4757
- Latitude
- 57.50318
- Longitude
- -3.95837
- Altitude
- 205 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.55 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.1 ha, 0.15 ha, 0.55 ha
- Footprint
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, vitrification, and other burning
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- animal bones and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1777); Other (1783); Other (1824); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1869); Earthwork Survey (1918); Earthwork Survey (1943); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1965); Other (1969); Other (1971); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2896
- HER
- Highland HER MHG6906
- National record
- record NH 84 NW 5; monument 15064
- Wikidata
- Q31102888
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
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Wallace, T (1918) 'Archaeological Notes'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 8 (1912-18), 87-136
- Woodhouselee (Fraser-Tytler, A) 1783 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh