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Barmkyn of North Keig
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2955
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2955 (2955)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Keig
- National Grid reference
- NJ 5991 2004
- Latitude
- 57.26932
- Longitude
- -2.66637
- Altitude
- 286 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.08 ha, 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1832); Other (1867); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1967); Other (1981); Earthwork Survey (2000); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11514
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ52SE0018
- National record
- record NJ 52 SE 8; monument 17701
- Wikidata
- Q31084594
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- 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