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Barmekin of Echt
Aberdeenshire, Scotland · Atlas SC2964
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2964 (2964)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Echt
- National Grid reference
- NJ 7260 0714
- Latitude
- 57.15438
- Longitude
- -2.45454
- Altitude
- 275 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 5
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 1.51 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.95 ha, 1.51 ha
- Footprint
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North); Oblique (North); Passage-way/Corridor (East); Passage-way/Corridor (South); Passage-way/Corridor (South west); Oblique (South west); Passage-way/Corridor (West); Oblique (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1762); Other (1795); Earthwork Survey (1820); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1822); Earthwork Survey (1865); Earthwork Survey (1920); Other (1953); Other (1957); Other (1964); Other (1981); Earthwork Survey (2000); Other (
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 57
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ70NW0013
- National record
- record NJ 70 NW 1; monument 18522
- Wikidata
- Q31084727
Sources
References
- 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. LondonHalliday, 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
- Simpson, W D (1920a) 'The hill fort on the Barmkin of Echt, Aberdeenshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 54 (1919-20), 45-50
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99