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West Mains of Ethie
Angus, Scotland · Atlas SC3093
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3093 (3093)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Inverkeilor
- National Grid reference
- NO 6928 4600
- Latitude
- 56.60493
- Longitude
- -2.50200
- Altitude
- 45 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
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1957); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1958); Other (1961); Excavation (1962); Excavation (1963); Excavation (1964); Excavation (1965); Excavation (1966); Excavation (1967); Excavation (1968); Excavation (1969); Excavation
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5586
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO64NE0008
- National record
- record NO 64 NE 8; monument 35439
- Wikidata
- Q31095687
Sources
References
- Wilson, E M (Mrs J) (1963) 'West Mains of Ethie, Inverkeilor'. Disc Exc Scot (1963), 4
- Wilson, EM (Mrs J) (1964) 'West Mains of Ethie, Inverkeilor'. Disc Exc Scot (1964), 2-3.
- Wilson, E M (Mrs J) (1965) 'West Mains of Ethie, Inverkeilor: promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1965), 4
- Wilson, E M (Mrs J) (1966) 'West Mains of Ethie, Inverkeilor: promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1966), 3
- Wilson, E M (Mrs J) (1967) 'West Mains of Ethie, Inverkeilor: promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1967), 4
- Wilson, E M (Mrs J) (1968) 'West Mains of Ethie, Inverkeilor: promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1968), 1-2
- Wilson, E M (Mrs J) (1969) 'West Mains of Ethie, Inverkeilor: promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1969), 1
- Wilson, E M (Mrs J) (1970) 'West Mains of Ethie, Inverkeilor: promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1970), 3-4
- Wilson, E M (Mrs J) (1971) 'Inverkeilor: West Mains of Ethie: promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1971), 2
- Wilson, E M (1981) 'Excavations at West Mains of Ethie, Angus'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 110 (1978-80), 114-21
- Wilson, J & E M (1961) 'West Mains of Ethie and Redhead'. Disc Exc Scot (1961), 3
- Wilson, J & E M (1962) 'West Mains of Ethie, Inverkeilor'. Disc Exc Scot (1962), 2-3