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Tillymuick
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2963
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2963 (2963)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Premnay
- National Grid reference
- NJ 6495 2450
- Latitude
- 57.30979
- Longitude
- -2.58344
- Altitude
- 254 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867); 1st Identified Written Reference (1883); Other (1943); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1973); Other (1977); Other (1981); Other (1992); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5316
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ62SW0003
- National record
- record NJ 62 SW 3; monument 18212
- Wikidata
- Q31084705
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
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- Yeats (1883) Trans Banffshire Fld Club (1883)