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Cleaved Head
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2974
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2974 (2974)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Banffshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gamrie
- National Grid reference
- NJ 7219 6474
- Latitude
- 57.67180
- Longitude
- -2.46778
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.63 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- vitrification and other burning
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1868); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1869); 1st Identified Written Reference (1897); Other (1963); Other (1968); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11021
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ76SW0004
- National record
- record NJ 76 SW 4; monument 19298
- Wikidata
- Q31084814
Sources
References
- Forbes, W (1897) Notes in Trans Banffshire Fld Club (1892-7), 10
- Hunter, J (1868) 'Description of Pit Dwellings at Dilly-moenan and the Miaave Craig, Tarlair, near Macduff, Banffshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 7 (1866-68), 465-71