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Craig Dorney
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2943
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2943 (2943)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glass
- National Grid reference
- NJ 4044 3535
- Latitude
- 57.40476
- Longitude
- -2.99274
- Altitude
- 410 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1988); Other (1989)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ43NW0016
- National record
- record NJ 43 NW 20; monument 17275
- Wikidata
- Q31083872
Sources
References
- Ralston, I (1988) 'Craig Dorney (Parish of Glass): hill fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1988), 13