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Crosskirk
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4348
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4348 (4348)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Caithness
- Parish, community, or townland
- Reay
- National Grid reference
- ND 0248 7012
- Latitude
- 58.60818
- Longitude
- -3.68007
- Altitude
- 12 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1871); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Other (1910); Other (1964); Excavation (1966); Excavation (1969); Excavation (1970); Excavation (1971); Excavation (1972); Other (1981)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90086
- HER
- Highland HER MHG39521
- National record
- record ND 07 SW 4; monument 8019
- Wikidata
- Q31102994
Sources
References
- Fairhurst, H (1969) 'Crosskirk, broch'. Disc Exc Scot (1969), 16
- Fairhurst, H (1984) Excavations at Crosskirk broch, Caithness. Soc Antiq Scot Monogr 3. Edinburgh
- Fairhurst, H and Taylor, D B (1970) 'Crosskirk, broch'. Disc Exc Scot (1970), 19-20
- Fairhurst, H and Taylor, D B (1971) 'Crosskirk, broch'. Disc Exc Scot (1971), 53
- Fairhurst, H and Taylor, D B (1972) 'Crosskirk, broch and settlement site'. Disc Exc Scot (1972), 54
- Fairhurst, H, Taylor, D B, and Morrison, A. (1966) 'Crosskirk broch'. Disc Exc Scot (1966), 19-20
- MacKie, E W. (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands. BAR: Oxford.
- RCAHMS (1911) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Third report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Caithness. HMSO, London
- Robertson, A S (1970) 'Roman finds from non-Roman sites in Scotland' Britannia 1 (1970), 198-226 (Table 2)