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Knock of Alves
Moray, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2932
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2932 (2932)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Moray
- Historic county
- Morayshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Alves
- National Grid reference
- NJ 1627 6295
- Latitude
- 57.64873
- Longitude
- -3.40451
- Altitude
- 103 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 0, SW 3, NW 5
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.07 ha, 0.23 ha, 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1957); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1962); Other (1972); Excavation (1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Moray per Aberdeenshire Council NJ16SE0007
- National record
- record NJ 16 SE 11; monument 16214
- Wikidata
- Q31104703
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Glendinning, B (1998) 'Knock of Alves (Alves parish), excavation'. Disc Exc Scot (1998), 66