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Strath Howe
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2984
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2984 (2984)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aberdour
- National Grid reference
- NJ 8398 6115
- Latitude
- 57.64011
- Longitude
- -2.26997
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.69 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1980); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5956
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ86SW0008
- National record
- record NJ 86 SW 8; monument 19978
- Wikidata
- Q31084896
Sources
References
- Ralston, I B M and Shepherd, I A G (1982) 'Strath Howe (Aberdour p) Promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1982), 11