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Elliot
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3091
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3091 (3091)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Arbirlot
- National Grid reference
- NO 6175 3933
- Latitude
- 56.54447
- Longitude
- -2.62366
- Altitude
- 8 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- metal, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1982); Excavation (1998); Excavation (2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO63NW0007
- National record
- record NO 63 NW 7; monument 35382
- Wikidata
- Q31095486
Sources
References
- Cameron, Rees, Dunwell and Anderson, K, A, A and S (2007) 'Prehistoric pits, Bronze Age roundhouses, and Iron Age promontory enclosure, Early Historic cist burials and medieval enclosures along the route of the A92, Dundee to Arbroath'. Tayside Fife Archaeol J 14 (2007), 39-74
- Rees and Cameron, A R and K (1998) 'A92 road improvement: Dundee to Arbroath (Arbirlot; Barry; Carnoustie; Dundee; Monifieth; Monikie; Panbride parishes), evaluation and excavation'. Disc Exc Scot (1998), 12
- Rees and Cameron, A R and K (2000) 'A92 road improvement: Dundee to Arbroath (Arbirlot; Panbride; Barry parishes), excavations'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 1 (2000), 11-12