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Downie Hillock
Moray, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2917
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2917 (2917)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Moray
- Historic county
- Morayshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dyke And Moy
- National Grid reference
- NH 9675 5815
- Latitude
- 57.60159
- Longitude
- -3.72935
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1914); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1971); Other (1991); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- HER
- Moray per Aberdeenshire Council NH95NE0011
- National record
- record NH 95 NE 5; monument 15531
- Wikidata
- Q31104680
Sources
References
- Dyke W R I (1966) A History of Dyke and Moy
- Shepherd, I (1991) 'Downie Hillock (Dyke & Moy parish): defensive bank'. Disc Exc Scot (1991), 39