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Long Nose

Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2985

Location

Atlas number
SC2985 (2985)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Aberdeenshire
Historic county
Banffshire
Parish, community, or townland
Gamrie
National Grid reference
NJ 8259 6310
Latitude
57.65757
Longitude
-2.29340
Altitude
160 m

Form and condition

Type
promontory fort
Condition
Cropmark
Morphology
partial multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
4
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 4
Number of ditches
4
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
0
Enclosed area
0.92 ha
Enclosure areas
0.4 ha, 0.92 ha
Footprint
0.93 ha
Also recorded
ditches

Landscape

Topographic position
inland promontory
Aspect
level
Land use
arable

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Written Reference (2014)

Identifiers

HER
Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record
National record
record NJ 86 SW 66; monument 344995
Wikidata
Q31084120

Sources