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Crathie Point
Aberdeenshire, Scotland · Atlas SC2957
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2957 (2957)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Banffshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fordyce
- National Grid reference
- NJ 5483 6717
- Latitude
- 57.69216
- Longitude
- -2.75933
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.25 ha, 1.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and undated
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1896); Other (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1960); Other (1967); Earthwork Survey (2006); Excavation (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ56NW0017
- National record
- record NJ 56 NW 14; monument 17947
- Wikidata
- Q31083991
Sources
References
- Buie, J (1896) 'Excursion to Findlater Castle and Cullen'. Trans Banffshire Fld Club (1896), 41
- Irving, Anderson, Cooper and Bruggimann, D, D, K and A (2006) 'Crathie Point, Aberdeenshire (Crathie Point), survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 7 (2006), 18
- Northern Picts Project Annual Report 2014 available at http://www.tarbat-discovery.co.uk/files/3114/2305/0534/Northern_Picts_Project_annual_report_2014.pdf