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Torran Ban

Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2922

Location

Atlas number
SC2922 (2922)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Highland
Historic county
Morayshire
Parish, community, or townland
Cromdale, Inverallan And Advie
National Grid reference
NJ 0695 3286
Latitude
57.37671
Longitude
-3.54910
Altitude
293 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
0
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.07 ha
Footprint
0.41 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank and palisade
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 (1971)

Identifiers

HER
Highland HER MHG6795
National record
record NJ 03 SE 3; monument 15731
Wikidata
Q31102344

Sources