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Craig Hill
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3082
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3082 (3082)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Murroes
- National Grid reference
- NO 4326 3586
- Latitude
- 56.51143
- Longitude
- -2.92354
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 4, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.2 ha, 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1957); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1958); Other (1972); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3038
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO43NW0022
- National record
- record NO 43 NW 22; monument 33365
- Wikidata
- Q31095621
Sources
References
- 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
- Steer, K A. (1957) Craighill, Angus'. Disc Exc Scot (1957), 39.