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Castlehaven
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2919
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2919 (2919)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tarbat
- National Grid reference
- NH 9296 8729
- Latitude
- 57.86232
- Longitude
- -3.80573
- Altitude
- 7 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1793); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Other (1972); Other (1977); Other (1990); Earthwork Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4806
- HER
- Highland HER MHG8498
- National record
- record NH 98 NW 5; monument 15627
- Wikidata
- Q31102979
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99