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Blockie Head
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2987
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2987 (2987)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cruden
- National Grid reference
- NK 1104 3826
- Latitude
- 57.43462
- Longitude
- -1.81775
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Footprint
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1868); Other (1901); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record
- National record
- record NK 13 NW 6; monument 75948
- Wikidata
- Q31084142
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- Pratt, J B (1901) Buchan. (Revision Aberdeen)