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Craigend of Careston
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3090
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3090 (3090)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brechin
- National Grid reference
- NO 5480 6045
- Latitude
- 56.73356
- Longitude
- -2.74039
- 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 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1966); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6647
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO56SW0014
- National record
- record NO 56 SW 14; monument 35116
- Wikidata
- Q31095672
Sources