Monument record MHG2622 - Fort, Knockfin

Summary

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 3064 2792 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH32NW
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish KILMORACK
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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Full Description

Larach Tigh nam Fionn (NR) (Ruins of) Human Remains found here AD.1870
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

.......the ruins of Fingall's house....a fort or stronghold. (Name Book 1872). Also called Knockfin. (G Mackenzie 1857)
This fort stands at a height of a little under 500' on the rocky spur of the ridge that divides the River Affric from Amhuinn Deabhag. It conforms in shape to the summit of the spur and is thus of irregular sub-rectangular plan, measuring about 100' in length from N - S by about 70' transversely within a wall which may have measured some 8-10' in thickness. Considerable stretches of the outer face are visible, but no reliable inner facing stones could be detected. The entrance is in the W near the NW corner. The interior is extremely uneven and is choked with fallen timber and vegetation. Outside the main wall are the remains of a smaller wall, represented by a narrow belt of tumbled blocks and boulders that straggle from the vicinity of the NW corner of the fort SW for about 120' to turn sharply E on an outcrop and run thence for a further distance of some 150' before merging with and becoming lost upon the steep E face of the spur.
Information from R W Feachem, MS Report to RCAMS 10 April 1957

Larach Tigh nam Fionn, a fort, as described by RCAMS.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 16 July 1964

(NH 3062 2792) Larach Tigh nam Fionn (NAT) Dun (NR)
OS 1/10,000 map, (1971)

No change to previous field report.
Re-surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J B) 19 March 1979

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Mackenzie, G. 1857. 'Researches in regard to the vitrified forts of Ross-shire, and other stations connected with them, where melted matter does not appear. Contained in a letter to Dr Hibbet, dated Coul, 1 September 1825', Archaeol Scot Vol. 4 1857, p.186-7. Archaeol Scot. 186-7. 186-7.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 51, 45.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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