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Tom a' Chaisteil
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2914
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2914 (2914)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Morayshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cromdale, Inverallan And Advie
- National Grid reference
- NH 9961 2871
- Latitude
- 57.33791
- Longitude
- -3.66934
- Altitude
- 381 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Footprint
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1905); 1st Identified Written Reference (1943); Earthwork Survey (1969); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG6772
- National record
- record NH 92 NE 2; monument 15419
- Wikidata
- Q31102142
Sources