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Cairnmore
Aberdeenshire, Scotland · Atlas SC2956
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2956 (2956)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Auchindoir And Kearn
- National Grid reference
- NJ 5035 2494
- Latitude
- 57.31239
- Longitude
- -2.82586
- Altitude
- 320 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
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.19 ha, 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and other burning
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1866); Other (1943); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1967); Other (1999); Excavation (2010)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ52SW0008
- National record
- record NJ 52 SW 9; monument 17723
- Wikidata
- Q31083952
Sources
References
- Cook. M (2011) 'New evidence for the activities of Pictish potentates in Aberdeenshire: the hillforts of Strathdon'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 141 (2011), 207-29
- Cook, M, Cook, M and Humble, J (2010) 'Hillforts of Strathdon: Phase 4 - Cairnmore, Aberdeenshire (Auchindoir and Kearn parish), evaluation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 11 (2010), 14
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Feachem, R W (1966) 'The hill-forts of northern Britain'. In Rivet, A L F (ed) The iron age in northern Britain. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh
- 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
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/