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Sidhean Mor Dail a' Chaorainn
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2921
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2921 (2921)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kingussie And Insh
- National Grid reference
- NH 6906 0039
- Latitude
- 57.07592
- Longitude
- -4.16167
- Altitude
- 397 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Footprint
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and 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 (1969); Earthwork Survey (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG4560
- National record
- record NH 60 SE 2; monument 13072
- Wikidata
- Q31102306
Sources