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Auchterhouse
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3066
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3066 (3066)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Auchterhouse
- National Grid reference
- NO 3543 3975
- Latitude
- 56.54534
- Longitude
- -3.05175
- Altitude
- 424 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 5, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.73 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1795); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1860); Other (1899); Other (1958); Other (1967)
Identifiers
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO33NE0003
- National record
- record NO 33 NE 3; monument 31874
- Wikidata
- Q31095461
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99