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An Dun
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2920
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2920 (2920)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kincardine
- National Grid reference
- NH 5669 9098
- Latitude
- 57.88527
- Longitude
- -4.41871
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1904); Other (1943); Other (1969); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG9158
- National record
- record NH 59 SE 5; monument 13062
- Wikidata
- Q31102281
Sources
References
- Watson, W J (1904) Place names of Ross and Cromarty, Inverness