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Mains of Edzell
Angus, Scotland · Atlas SC3086
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3086 (3086)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Edzell
- National Grid reference
- NO 5886 6920
- Latitude
- 56.81254
- Longitude
- -2.67544
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.12 ha, 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.69 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North east); Simple Gap (North east); Oblique (South east); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1976); Other (1989); Other (1996); Excavation (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6573
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO56NE0026
- National record
- record NO 56 NE 26; monument 34987
- Wikidata
- Q31095653
Sources
References
- Hamilton, J. (1998) 'Mains of Edzell (Edzell parish), excavation'. Disc Exc Scot (1998), 13-14
- Strachan, R J, Hamilton, J E and Dunwell, A J (2003) ' Excavations of cropmark enclosures in Angus at Mains of Edzell and Hawkhill, Lunan. Tayside Fife Archaeol J 9 (2003), 32-64