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Maiden Castle
Aberdeenshire, Scotland · Atlas SC2962
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2962 (2962)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oyne
- National Grid reference
- NJ 6942 2435
- Latitude
- 57.30877
- Longitude
- -2.50922
- Altitude
- 205 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes and rectangular structures
- Finds
- metalworking
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1726); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1973); Other (1976); Other (1978); Other (1981); Earthwork Survey (1997); Excavation (2007); Excavation (2008); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12012
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ62SE0002
- National record
- record NJ 62 SE 2; monument 18182
- Wikidata
- Q31084687
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, Dunbar and Engl, M, L and R (2008) 'Hillforts of Strathdon: Phase 2 - Maiden Castle and Dunnideer, Aberdeenshire (Insch / Oyne parishes), evaluation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 9 (2008), 23
- Cook, Dunbar and Engl, M, L and R (2007) 'Hillforts of Strathdon: Phase 1 Maiden Castle, Aberdeenshire (Oyne parish), evaluation'. Disc Exc Scot New Ser, 8 (2007), 27-28
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Gordon, A (1726) Itinerarium Septentrionale: or A Journey Thro most of the Counties of Scotland And Those in the North of England. 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