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Loch Kinord
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3075
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3075 (3075)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glenmuick, Tullich And Deeside
- National Grid reference
- NO 4442 9900
- Latitude
- 57.07871
- Longitude
- -2.91849
- Altitude
- 165 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1866); Other (1910); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1969); Excavation (2015)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NO49NW0006
- National record
- record NO 49 NW 11; monument 33979
- Wikidata
- Q31084187
Sources
References
- Michie, J G (1910) Loch Kinnord: its history and antiquities. New and revised edition. Aberdeen
- Ogston, A (1931) The prehistoric antiquities of the Howe of Cromar. (Simpson, W D ed) Third Spalding Club:Aberdeen
- Stratigos. M (2015) 'Excavation at the Gardiebane Peninsula. https://scottishcrannogs.wordpress.com/
- Stuart, J (1868) 'Notice of a group of artificial islands in the Loch of Dowalton, Wigtonshire, and of other artificial islands or "Crannogs" throughout Scotland'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 6 (1864-66), 114-78