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Castle Rock, Auchmithie
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3095
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3095 (3095)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Arbroath And St Vigeans
- National Grid reference
- NO 6819 4416
- Latitude
- 56.58833
- Longitude
- -2.51952
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- metal and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1899); Other (1956); Other (1958); Other (1965); Excavation (1967); Excavation (1968); Excavation (1969); Other (1969); Excavation (1970); Excavation (1971); Excavation (1972); Excavation (1973); Excavation (197
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2875
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO64SE0004
- National record
- record NO 64 SE 4; monument 35531
- Wikidata
- Q31095706
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
- Gardner, D A (1970) 'Auchmithie: promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1970), 2
- Ralston, I (1987) 'The Arbroath Antiquary Club's excavations at Castle Rock promontory fort, Auchmithie, Arbroath and St Vigeans, Angus District'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 116 (1986), 101-15