Location
- Atlas number
- SC2916 (2916)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Nairn
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ardclach
- National Grid reference
- NH 9324 4067
- Latitude
- 57.44383
- Longitude
- -3.78039
- Altitude
- 266 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and vitrification
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1918); Other (1943); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1964); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1971); Other (1974); Other (1978); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2470
- HER
- Highland HER MHG7083
- National record
- record NH 94 SW 1; monument 15497
- Wikidata
- Q31102976
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Keillar, I (1974) 'Ardclach, iron slag'. Disc Exc Scot (1974), 47
- Wallace, T (1918) 'Archaeological Notes'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 8 (1912-18), 87-136