Location
- Atlas number
- SC2935 (2935)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Moray
- Historic county
- Banffshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mortlach
- National Grid reference
- NJ 3488 3745
- Latitude
- 57.42280
- Longitude
- -3.08594
- Altitude
- 275 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 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Footprint
- 0.95 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1868); Other (1887); Other (1943); Other (1967)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90024
- HER
- Moray per Aberdeenshire Council NJ33NW0012
- National record
- record NJ 33 NW 1; monument 16797
- Wikidata
- Q31104716
Sources
References
- MacGibbon and Ross, D and T (1887-92) The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries. 5v David Douglas: Edinburgh
- Simpson, W D (1929) 'The early castles of Mar. (First paper)'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 63 (1928-9), 102-38