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Hopewell Lodge
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2936
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2936 (2936)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Logie_Coldstone
- National Grid reference
- NJ 4527 0555
- Latitude
- 57.13765
- Longitude
- -2.90590
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1957); Excavation (1957); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ40NE0004
- National record
- record NJ 40 NE 6; monument 16979
- Wikidata
- Q31083848
Sources
References
- Kirk, W (1957) 'Hopewell Lodge, Tarland'. Disc Exc Scot (1957), 4