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MHG6785 - Grant's Fort

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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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Grid reference	Centred NJ 0534 3159 (60m by 60m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NJ03SE
Civil Parish	CROMDALE, INVERALLAN AND ADVIE
Geographical Area	BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY

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