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Hurly Hawkin
Angus, Scotland · Atlas SC3070
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3070 (3070)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Liff And Benvie
- National Grid reference
- NO 3321 3279
- Latitude
- 56.48252
- Longitude
- -3.08606
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); Excavation (1794); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Excavation (1865); Other (1953); Other (1957); Excavation (1958); Excavation (1959); Excavation (1960); Excavation (1961); Excavation (1962); Excavation (1963
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 140
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO33SW0007
- National record
- record NO 33 SW 7; monument 32052
- Wikidata
- Q31095539
Sources
References
- Jervise, A (1866) 'Account of excavations at Hurley Hawkin, near Dundee'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 6 (1864-6), 210-14
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99
- Taylor, D B (1958) 'Hurley Hawkin, Liff and Benvie'. Disc Exc Scot (1958), 2
- Taylor, D B (1959) 'Hurley Hawkin, Liff and Benvie'. Disc Exc Scot (1959), 1
- Taylor, D B (1960) 'Hurley Hawkin, Liff and Benvie'. Disc Exc Scot (1960), 3
- Taylor, D B (1961) 'Hurley Hawkin, Liff and Benvie'. Disc Exc Scot (1961), 5
- Taylor, D B (1962) 'Hurley Hawkin, Liff and Benvie'. Disc Exc Scot (1962), 2
- Taylor, D B (1963) 'Hurley Hawkin, Liff and Benvie'. Disc Exc Scot (1963), 1
- Taylor, D B (1964) 'Hurley Hawkin, Liff and Benvie'. Disc Exc Scot (1964), 2
- Taylor, D B (1965) 'Hurley Hawkin, Liff and Benvie'. Disc Exc Scot (1965), 3-4
- Taylor, D B (1966) 'Hurley Hawkin, Liff and Benvie'. Disc Exc Scot (1966), 2
- Taylor, D B (1967) 'Hurly Hawkin, Liff and Benvie: promontory fort, broch and souterrain'. Disc Exc Scot (1967), 1
- Taylor, D B (1982) 'Excavations of a promontory fort, broch and souterrain at Hurly Hawkin, Angus'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 112 (1982), 215-53