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Comar Wood
Highland, Scotland · Atlas SC4212
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4212 (4212)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmorack
- National Grid reference
- NH 3250 3100
- Latitude
- 57.33880
- Longitude
- -4.78454
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and vitrification
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- metalworking, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1943); Earthwork Survey (2010); Earthwork Survey (2013); Excavation (2013)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG55867
- National record
- record NH 33 SW; monument 314324
- Wikidata
- Q31102560
Sources
References
- Birch, S (2014) 'Kilmorack, Comar Wood Dun, Evaluation and survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 14 (2013), 109
- Birch, S, Fraser, L and Peteranna, M (2014) Comar Wood Dun Archaeological Evaluation and Measured Survey Cannich, Strathglass, Scotland: Data Structure Report. Unpublished report held by Highland HER
- Peteranna, M, Birch, S and Fraser, L (2014) Comar Wood Dun Archaeological Evaluation and Measured Survey Cannich, Strathglass, Scotland: Final Report. Unpublished report held by Highland HER
- Ritchie, M, Taylor, B and Duff, B (2010) 'Comar Wood, Highland (Kilmorack parish), survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 11 (2010), 97