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Latitude: 57.4884 / 57°29'18"N
Longitude: -4.5304 / 4°31'49"W
OS Eastings: 248416
OS Northings: 847068
OS Grid: NH484470
Mapcode National: GBR H85X.ZH5
Mapcode Global: WH3F6.C1WM
Entry Name: Dun Fhamhair,fort
Scheduled Date: 22 August 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5212
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Kilmorack
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Aird and Loch Ness
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
The monument comprises the remains of an oval fort of the Iron Age, measuring 43m N-S by 35m within a wall up to 3.5m across with outer facing stones visible for most of the perimeter. Outside the fort to the north east there is a 55m long rampart and ditch with an entrance through its centre. The area to be scheduled measures 100m in
diameter to include the fort and the rampart, and an area around them in which traces of activities associated with their use will survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a well preserved example of a stone walled Iron Age fortification; it is of particular interest because of the existence of an outer defence work. The monument has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric defensive structures and settlement activity.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NH 44 NE 7.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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