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Davie's Castle
Moray, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2946
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2946 (2946)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Moray
- Historic county
- Banffshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rathven
- National Grid reference
- NJ 4983 6436
- Latitude
- 57.66639
- Longitude
- -2.84261
- Altitude
- 108 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.11 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867); Other (1967); Other (2004); Earthwork Survey (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11042
- HER
- Moray per Aberdeenshire Council NJ46SE0002
- National record
- record NJ 46 SE 2; monument 17421
- Wikidata
- Q31104747
Sources
References
- Irving and Anderson, D and D (2006) 'Davie's Castle Fort, Moray (Rathven parish), hillfort'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 7 (2006)
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- Yeoman, P A (1988f) 'Mottes in Northeast Scotland', Scot Archaeol Rev, vol.5