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Wheedlemont
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2939
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2939 (2939)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Auchindoir And Kearn
- National Grid reference
- NJ 4729 2605
- Latitude
- 57.32201
- Longitude
- -2.87689
- Altitude
- 352 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.11 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms, other roundhouse evidence, and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1865); 1st Identified Written Reference (1870); Other (1930); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1967); Other (1974); Other (1981); Earthwork Survey (1996); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11681
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ42NE0005
- National record
- record NJ 42 NE 5; monument 17215
- Wikidata
- Q31084525
Sources
References
- Halliday, S P (2007) The later prehistoric landscape. In RCAHMS (2007) In the Shadow of Bennachie: A Field Archaeology of Donside, Aberdeenshire. RCAHMS & Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Edinburgh
- Jervise, A (1870) 'Notes respecting the castle of Craig and the old kirk of Auchindoir, &c., in Aberdeenshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 8 (1868-70), 323-30
- Simpson, W D (1930) 'Craig Castle and the Kirk of Auchindoir, Aberdeenshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 64 (1929-30), 48-96
- Simpson, W D (1932) 'Lesmoir Castle and the Church of Essie: with some further notes on Auchindoir'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 66 (1931-2), 86-101