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Dillyminnen
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2975
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2975 (2975)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Banffshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gamrie
- National Grid reference
- NJ 7292 6473
- Latitude
- 57.67170
- Longitude
- -2.45562
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.26 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- animal bones
- Investigations
- Excavation (1862); Earthwork Survey (1868); Other (1897); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1963); Other (1968)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ76SW0007
- National record
- record NJ 76 SW 7; monument 19301
- Wikidata
- Q31084092
Sources
References
- Forbes, W (1897) Notes in Trans Banffshire Fld Club (1892-7), 11
- 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