Monument record MHG3354 - Cnoc A' Chinn
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Location
Grid reference | Centred NH 5976 4514 (80m by 80m) (Buffered by site type) |
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Map sheet | NH54NE |
Old County | INVERNESS-SHIRE |
Civil Parish | KIRKHILL |
Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
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Full Description
NH54NE 1 5976 4514.
(NH 5976 4514) Dun (NR)
OS 25"map, (1969)
A denuded oval fort on the highest part of a rocky ridge. It measures some 36.0 m NE-SW by 21.0 m over all, with the base course of the outer wall face of contiguous stones visible intermittently around much of the perimeter. The wall is mainly turf-covered, averaging 0.3 m high, and
no definite inner facing-stones are evident, but it appears to increase in thickness from about 2.6 m in the NE to about 3.8 m at the entrance in the SW. The entrance, at the easiest point of approach, is 2.8 m wide; it is flanked on either side by stones on edge, with no evidence of a door check.
The hill is alleged to be a court-hill or place of justice (ISSFC 1885). Surveyed at 1:2500 (visited by OS (R D) 17 December 1964).
Visited by OS (A A) 25 November 1970.
Dun, Cnoc a' Chinn: This dun occupies the summit of a rocky knoll 1 km ESE of Inchberry farmhouse. Oval on plan, it measures about 27 m by 14 m within the wasted remains of a wall.
RCAHMS 1979
This is a dun, thickly overgrown with whin. Correct as described by the previous field investigator.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J M) 9 Feburary 1981.
Sources/Archives (3)
- --- SHG1224 Text/Publication/Article: Wallace, T. 1921. 'Notes on the parish of Petty', Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club Vol. 8 1912-18, p.155-74. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club. 155-74. 115; plan 114.
- --- SHG1627 Text/Publication/Article: ISSFC. 1885. 'The Bunchrew district {excursion to}', Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club Vol. 1 1875-80, p.79-82. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club. 79-82. 82.
- --- SHG2673 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1979. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of North-east Inverness, Inverness District, Highland Region. . 17, No. 101.
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2008 12:00AM