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Little Conval
Moray, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2933
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2933 (2933)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Moray
- Historic county
- Banffshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mortlach
- National Grid reference
- NJ 2942 3930
- Latitude
- 57.43859
- Longitude
- -3.17737
- Altitude
- 553 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble, palisade, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1822); Other (1869); Other (1954); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1967); Other (1990)
Identifiers
- HER
- Moray per Aberdeenshire Council NJ23NE0006
- National record
- record NJ 23 NE 1; monument 16307
- Wikidata
- Q31104706
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Feachem, R W (1971) 'Unfinished hill-forts', in Hill, D and Jesson, M (eds) The Iron Age and its hill-forts: papers presented to Sir Mortimer Wheeler on the occasion of his eightieth year. Southampton