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Rait Castle
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2909
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2909 (2909)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Nairn
- Parish, community, or townland
- Nairn
- National Grid reference
- NH 8925 5296
- Latitude
- 57.55321
- Longitude
- -3.85241
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.06 ha, 0.16 ha
- Footprint
- 0.23 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (East); Oblique (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1976); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11805
- HER
- Highland HER MHG7011
- National record
- record NH 85 SE 3; monument 15184
- Wikidata
- Q31102922
Sources