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Castle Hill, Meams
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3074
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3074 (3074)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirriemuir
- National Grid reference
- NO 3615 5681
- Latitude
- 56.69868
- Longitude
- -3.04426
- Altitude
- 295 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Footprint
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1885); Other (1958); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1977); Other (1983); Other (1987)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4420
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO35NE0006
- National record
- record NO 35 NE 6; monument 32228
- Wikidata
- Q31095567
Sources
References
- Warden, A J (1880-5) Angus or Forfarshire: the land and people, descriptive and historical (5v). Dundee