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Cluny Hill
Moray, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2924
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2924 (2924)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Moray
- Historic county
- Morayshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Forres
- National Grid reference
- NJ 0445 5902
- Latitude
- 57.61109
- Longitude
- -3.60091
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1798); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1870); Other (1943); Other (1963); Other (2015); LiDAR Survey (2015)
Identifiers
- HER
- Moray per Aberdeenshire Council NJ05NW0004
- National record
- record NJ 05 NW 4; monument 15818
- Wikidata
- Q31104698
Sources
References
- Chalmers, G (1887-94) Caledonia: or a historical and topographical account of North Britain, 7 vols + index. Paisley
- Cotton, M A (1954) 'British camps with timber-laced ramparts'. Archaeol J 111 (1954), 26-105
- Isaksen, L (2016) The Fortified Enclosure on Cluny Hill, Forres: description, destruction, disappearance. Unpublished report in draft