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Hill of Christ's Kirk
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2960
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2960 (2960)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kennethmont
- National Grid reference
- NJ 6018 2742
- Latitude
- 57.33563
- Longitude
- -2.66309
- Altitude
- 310 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 4, NW 4
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.75 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.15 ha, 0.43 ha, 0.75 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade and unfinished work
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1956); Earthwork Survey (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1969); Other (1996); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11394
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ62NW0016
- National record
- record NJ 62 NW 21; monument 18141
- Wikidata
- Q31084647
Sources
References
- 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