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Laws of Monifieth
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3081
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3081 (3081)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Monifieth
- National Grid reference
- NO 4916 3489
- Latitude
- 56.50337
- Longitude
- -2.82752
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Footprint
- 0.98 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); Other (1827); Other (1842); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1859); Excavation (1859); Earthwork Survey (1899); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1958); Other (1964); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2394
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO43SE0007
- National record
- record NO 43 SE 7; monument 33450
- Wikidata
- Q31095610
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120
- Cotton, M A (1954) 'British camps with timber-laced ramparts'. Archaeol J 111 (1954), 26-105 (p 66-7)
- Feachem, R W (1963) Guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Jamieson, J. (1834) 'On the vitrified forts of Scotland'. Trans Roy Soc Literature 2 (1834), 227-51
- MacKie, E W. (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands. BAR: Oxford.
- 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.
- Neish, J. (1859) Reference notes to plan and views of ancient remains on the summit of the Laws, Forfarshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 3 (1857-59), 440-54.
- Neish, J. (1864) Further notice of explorations on the Hill of Laws, Forfarshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 5 (1862-64), 321-2.
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99
- Stuart, J. (1859) Notes on Mr Neish's paper'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 3 (1857-59), 447-54.