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Dumbarrow Hill
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3076
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3076 (3076)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkden
- National Grid reference
- NO 5515 4791
- Latitude
- 56.62095
- Longitude
- -2.73248
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- 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 (1833); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1885); Other (1956); Other (1966); Other (1971); Other (1978); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3076
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO54NE0005
- National record
- record NO 54 NE 5; monument 34656
- Wikidata
- Q31095574
Sources
References
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy. Edinburgh.
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- Warden, A J. (1880-5) Angus or Forfarshire: the land and people, descriptive and historical (5v). Dundee.