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Prail Castle
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3092
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3092 (3092)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Inverkeilor
- National Grid reference
- NO 6972 4643
- Latitude
- 56.60882
- Longitude
- -2.49488
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1794); 1st Identified Written Reference (1843); Other (1958); Other (1965); Other (1978); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5587
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO64NE0007
- National record
- record NO 64 NE 7; monument 35438
- Wikidata
- Q31095675
Sources
References
- Carrie, J (1881) Ancient Things in Angus: A Series of Articles on Ancient Things, Manners and Customs, in Forfarshire. Arbroath
- Cumming, G (Publisher) (1848) Forfarshire Illustrated. Dundee