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Elliot Water
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3080
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3080 (3080)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Carmyllie
- National Grid reference
- NO 5775 4171
- Latitude
- 56.56549
- Longitude
- -2.68910
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1754); Other (1833); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1943); Other (1956); Other (1958); Other (1966)
Identifiers
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO54SE0007
- National record
- record NO 54 SE 7; monument 34709
- Wikidata
- Q31095484
Sources
References
- Crawford, O G S (1949) Topography of Roman Scotland north of the Antonine Wall. Cambridge
- 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.