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Avielochan
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2913
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2913 (2913)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Duthil And Rothiemurcus
- National Grid reference
- NH 9051 1723
- Latitude
- 57.23273
- Longitude
- -3.81530
- Altitude
- 320 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 2, SE 2, SW 4, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.41 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.12 ha, 0.41 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (South west); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1880); Earthwork Survey (1910); Earthwork Survey (1958); Other (1969); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4157
- HER
- Highland HER MHG4689
- National record
- record NH 91 NW 13; monument 15387
- Wikidata
- Q31102973
Sources
References
- Cash, C G (1910) 'Archaeological notes from Aviemore'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 44 (1909-10), 189-203
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Grant, A (1880) 'Stone circles and other ancient remains in Strathspey'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 1 (1875-80), 53-60