Location
- Atlas number
- SC3072 (3072)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glamis
- National Grid reference
- NO 3546 4440
- Latitude
- 56.58712
- Longitude
- -3.05242
- Altitude
- 205 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 1, SW 2, NW 4
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.6 ha, 1.2 ha
- Footprint
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1726); Other (1791); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1860); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1953); Other (1956); Other (1970); Other (1983); Other (1995); Earthwork Survey (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 138
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO34SE0001
- National record
- record NO 34 SE 1; monument 32139
- Wikidata
- Q31095553
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
- Feachem, R W (1963) Guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Gordon, A (1726) Itinerarium Septentrionale: or A Journey Thro most of the Counties of Scotland And Those in the North of England. London
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99