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Kinpurney Hill
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3073
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3073 (3073)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Newtyle
- National Grid reference
- NO 3227 4177
- Latitude
- 56.56304
- Longitude
- -3.10366
- Altitude
- 345 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 6.83 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, vitrification, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); In-turned (North east); In-turned (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967); Other (1972); Other (1983); Other (1999); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3219
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO34SW0007
- National record
- record NO 34 SW 7; monument 32170
- Wikidata
- Q31095557
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1966) 'The hill-forts of northern Britain'. In Rivet, A L F (ed) The iron age in northern Britain. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99