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Latitude: 57.5264 / 57°31'35"N
Longitude: -4.2231 / 4°13'23"W
OS Eastings: 266970
OS Northings: 850650
OS Grid: NH669506
Mapcode National: GBR H8YT.VMQ
Mapcode Global: WH4G9.3370
Entry Name: Creag a Chaisteil,dun
Scheduled Date: 22 May 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4677
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun
Location: Knockbain
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Black Isle
Traditional County: Ross-shire
The monument comprises a sub-circular dun occupying the summit of a ridge. It measures overall 21m NWSE by 18m. The wall's outer face survives to a height of 1m. The area to be scheduled includes ground in which traces of activities associated with the construction and
use of the dun will survive and measures 40m NWSE by 40m transversely as depicted in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because it can give us a greater understanding of Iron Age defensive structures and because the dun, occupying a dominant site, is one of the rare eastern examples of a predominantly western Scottish type of structure which has the potential to increase understanding of the relationship between the disparate peoples of prehistoric Scotland.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NH 65 SE 7.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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