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Dun Earn
Moray, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2918
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2918 (2918)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Moray
- Historic county
- Morayshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Edinkillie
- National Grid reference
- NH 9978 5156
- Latitude
- 57.54310
- Longitude
- -3.67595
- Altitude
- 145 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Footprint
- 3.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1871); Other (1971); Other (1985); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- HER
- Moray per Aberdeenshire Council NH95SE0003
- National record
- record NH 95 SE 1; monument 15564
- Wikidata
- Q31104688
Sources
References
- Keillar, I (1985) 'Edinkillie p, Defended Site'. Disc Exc Scot (1985), 19
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/