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Maiden Castle, East Seaton
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3094
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3094 (3094)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Arbroath And St Vigeans
- National Grid reference
- NO 6688 4203
- Latitude
- 56.56910
- Longitude
- -2.54058
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South 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 Written Reference (1794); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1956); Other (1958); Other (1965); Other (1969); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2872
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO64SE0002
- National record
- record NO 64 SE 2; monument 35529
- Wikidata
- Q31095698
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120