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Castle Findlay
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2910
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2910 (2910)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Nairn
- Parish, community, or townland
- Nairn
- National Grid reference
- NH 8880 5140
- Latitude
- 57.53910
- Longitude
- -3.85921
- Altitude
- 85 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 7
- Enclosed area
- 0.31 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.04 ha, 0.31 ha
- Footprint
- 0.49 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1777); Earthwork Survey (1824); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1869); Earthwork Survey (1918); Other (1943); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1965); Other (1971); Other (1978); Other (1992)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3087
- HER
- Highland HER MHG6994
- National record
- record NH 85 SE 7; monument 15203
- Wikidata
- Q31102951
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
- Wallace, T (1918) 'Archaeological Notes'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 8 (1912-18), 87-136