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Janetstown
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4208
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4208 (4208)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Latheron
- National Grid reference
- ND 1905 3201
- Latitude
- 58.26940
- Longitude
- -3.38151
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1983); Other (1991); Other (2002); Other (2003); Other (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5182
- HER
- Highland HER MHG1182
- National record
- record ND 13 SE 55; monument 8175
- Wikidata
- Q31103008
Sources
References
- Smith, J (1983) 'Janetsown, (Latheron p) promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1983), 16