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Portknockie, Green Castle
Moray, Scotland · Atlas SC2945
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2945 (2945)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Moray
- Historic county
- Banffshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rathven
- National Grid reference
- NJ 4885 6877
- Latitude
- 57.70589
- Longitude
- -2.85997
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, timber-framed wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); Other (1867); Other (1962); Other (1967); Excavation (1976); Excavation (1977); Excavation (1978); Excavation (1979); Excavation (1980); Excavation (1981); Other (2004)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11040
- HER
- Moray per Aberdeenshire Council NJ46NE0018
- National record
- record NJ 46 NE 8; monument 17408
- Wikidata
- Q31104736
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
- Ralston, I (1980a) 'The Green Castle and the promontory forts of North-East Scotland'. Scot Archaeol Forum 10 (1980), 27-40
- Ralston, I (1980b) 'Green Castle, Portknockie (Rathven p): promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1980), 15-16
- Ralston, I (1981) 'Green Castle, Portnockie (Rathven p) Promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1981), 16-17
- Ralston, I (1982) 'Green Castle, Portknockie (Rathven p): fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1982), 13-14
- Ralston, I (1987) 'Portnockie: promontory forts and Pictish settlement in the North- East'. In Small, A The Picts: a new look at old problems. Dundee (p 15-26)
- Ralston and Fojut, I and N (1977) 'Rathven, Portnockie: Green Castle promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1977), 9
- Ralston and Fojut, I and N (1978) 'Green Castle: promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1978), 12
- Ralston and Fojut, I and N (1979) 'Greencastle, Portknockie (Rathven p): promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1979), 14, No. 87