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Balblair
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2908
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2908 (2908)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Nairn
- Parish, community, or townland
- Nairn
- National Grid reference
- NH 8772 5518
- Latitude
- 57.57280
- Longitude
- -3.87887
- Altitude
- 28 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.05 ha, 0.14 ha
- Footprint
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1982); Earthwork Survey (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG7285
- National record
- record NH 85 NE 46; monument 15134
- Wikidata
- Q31101921
Sources
References
- Jones, B, Keillar, I & Maude, K (1993) The Moray Aerial Survey: Discovering the Prehistoric and proto-Historic Landscape. 47-74 in Sellar, W D H (ed) Moray: Province and People. The Scottish Society for Northern Studies