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Knockargety Hill
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2937
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2937 (2937)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Logie-Coldstone
- National Grid reference
- NJ 4540 0307
- Latitude
- 57.11539
- Longitude
- -2.90321
- Altitude
- 267 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867); Other (1957); Other (1968); Other (1986); Other (1990); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 8581
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ40SE0003
- National record
- record NJ 40 SE 3; monument 17028
- Wikidata
- Q31084443
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Ogston, A (1931) The Prehistoric Antiquities of the Howe of Cromar, 102
- Ralston, I (1984) 'Notes on the archaeology of Kincardine and Deeside District'. The Deeside Fld, 2 ser, 18 (1984), 73-83