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Auchray
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3069
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3069 (3069)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mains And Strathmartine
- National Grid reference
- NO 3645 3492
- Latitude
- 56.50210
- Longitude
- -3.03398
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.93 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); Other (1865); Other (1956); Other (1958); Other (1977); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6561
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO33SE0055
- National record
- record NO 33 SE 5 & 55; monument 31961
- Wikidata
- Q31095529
Sources
References
- Warden, A J (1880-5) Angus or Forfarshire: the land and people, descriptive and historical (5v). Dundee (Vol. 4, p 297-8)
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99