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Easter Rarichie
Highland, Scotland · Atlas SC2912
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2912 (2912)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Nigg
- National Grid reference
- NH 8434 7360
- Latitude
- 57.73727
- Longitude
- -3.94430
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (East); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1836); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1977); Other (1981); Other (1991); Earthwork Survey (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5215
- HER
- Highland HER MHG44719
- National record
- record NH 87 SW 6; monument 15300
- Wikidata
- Q31102971
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy, 15v Edinburgh