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Barflat
Aberdeenshire, Scotland · Atlas SC2941
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2941 (2941)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rhynie
- National Grid reference
- NJ 4970 2635
- Latitude
- 57.32498
- Longitude
- -2.83694
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.05 ha, 0.11 ha, 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- other burning and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1923); Other (1961); 1st Identified Written Reference (1978); Other (2000); Other (2004); Geophysical Survey (2005); Geophysical Survey (2006); Excavation (2011); Excavation (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 69
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ42NE0047
- National record
- record NJ 42 NE 54 & 217; monument 17220
- Wikidata
- Q31084550
Sources
References
- Aberdeen Archaeological Surveys (1979) 'Aerial reconnaissance'. Disc Exc Scot (1979), 12
- Gondek and Noble, M and G (2006) 'The Craw Stane / Barflat, Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, geophysical survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 7 (2006), 21
- Gondek and Noble, M and G (2007) 'Rhynie Environs Archaeological Project - The Craw Stane/Barflat, Rhynie, Aberdeenshire (Rhynie parish), geophysical survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 8 (2007), 28-9
- Gondeck, M and Noble, G (2011) REAP 2011 Excavation of cropmarks in association with the Craw Stane, Rhynie, Aberdeenshire: Data Structure Report. http://www.reaparch.blogspot.co.uk/
- Gondeck, M and Noble, G (2012) REAP 2012 Excavation of a palisaded and ditched enclosure and timber buildings in association with the Craw Stane, Rhynie, Aberdeenshire: Data Structure Report. http://www.reaparch.blogspot.co.uk/
- Gondeck, M and Noble, G 2014 Current Archaeology 289, April 2014
- 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
- Roberts, Noble and Gondek, S, G and M (2005) 'The Craw Stane/Barflat, Rhynie (Rhynie parish), geophysical survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 6 (2005), 18-19