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Durn Hill
Aberdeenshire, Scotland · Atlas SC2958
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2958 (2958)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Banffshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fordyce
- National Grid reference
- NJ 5710 6383
- Latitude
- 57.66238
- Longitude
- -2.72066
- Altitude
- 198 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.8 ha, 2.6 ha, 3.6 ha
- Footprint
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble, palisade, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1866); 1st Identified Written Reference (1884); Other (1956); Other (1961); Excavation (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ56SE0003
- National record
- record NJ 56 SE 4; monument 17973
- Wikidata
- Q31084021
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1971) 'Unfinished hill-forts'. In Hill, D and Jesson, M (eds) The Iron Age and its hill-forts: papers presented to Sir Mortimer Wheeler on the occasion of his eightieth year. Southampton
- 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