Monument record MHG6785 - Grant's Fort

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Location

Grid reference Centred NJ 0534 3159 (60m by 60m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NJ03SE
Old County MORAYSHIRE
Civil Parish CROMDALE, INVERALLAN AND ADVIE
Geographical Area BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY

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Access Audit 131 - HAW 11/2003

NJ03SE 1 0534 3159.
Grant's Fort (NAT). OS 6"map, Morayshire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Grant's Fort, a motte, situated near the NE end of a ridge flanked in the NW by a deep ravine and in the NE and SE by a boggy dell. The east approach from the SW has been cut off by a ditch 8.0m wide from which the spoil, consisting of soil and much stone, has been used to build up a level oval platform, c 11.5m NE-SW by c 8.5m transversely which has traces of a bank around its rim. 0.4m lower than the platform and attached to it in the SW is a terrace c 3.0m by c 5.5m which may be original but could be due to soil slip. Beyond the platform in the NE is another ill-preserved ditch c 5.0m wide which has a mutilated causeway 1.0m wide across it. This does not appear to be an entrance causeway and seems more likely to be a result of the ditch not being completed. There is a lot of stone in the construction of the platform, but it all seems to have come from the ditch, and there is no trace of built walling. Surveyed at 1/2500 (Visited by OS {N K B} 6 September 1966).
Visited by OS (A A) 18 January 1972.

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Record last edited

Dec 1 2014 4:55PM

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