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Moor Dam
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1846
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1846 (1846)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Culross
- National Grid reference
- NS 9464 8822
- Latitude
- 56.07520
- Longitude
- -3.69427
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); Other (1861); Other (1925); Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1953); Other (1974); Excavation (2012); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 13358
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NS 98 NW 9; monument 48127
- Wikidata
- Q31086497
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1933) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Eleventh report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the counties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Shaw and Edwards, R and B (2011) 'Keir Plantation / Castlehill Wood / Callendar Wood, Falkirk and Fife (Falkirk and Culross parishes), survey', Disc Exc Scot, New Ser 12 (2011), 84