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Balzeordie
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3089
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3089 (3089)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Menmuir
- National Grid reference
- NO 5600 6473
- Latitude
- 56.77213
- Longitude
- -2.72151
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council Not noted
- National record
- record NO 56 SE 307; monument 286442
- Wikidata
- Q31095485
Sources