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Tronach Castle
Moray, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2944
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2944 (2944)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Moray
- Historic county
- Banffshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rathven
- National Grid reference
- NJ 4778 6868
- Latitude
- 57.70496
- Longitude
- -2.87790
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); Other (1867); Other (1962); Other (1967); Other (2004)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11045
- HER
- Moray per Aberdeenshire Council NJ46NE0017
- National record
- record NJ 46 NE 5; monument 17405
- Wikidata
- Q31104726
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99