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Whiting Ness
Angus, Scotland · Atlas SC3100
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3100 (3100)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Arbroath And St Vigeans
- National Grid reference
- NO 6594 4112
- Latitude
- 56.56086
- Longitude
- -2.55576
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800 and undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1958); Other (1988); Excavation (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO64SE0012
- National record
- record NO 64 SE 12; monument 68234
- Wikidata
- Q31095494
Sources
References
- Benvie, R (1993) 'Whiting Ness (Arbroath & St Vigeans parish): stone drain'. Disc Exc Scot (1993), 94
- Benvie, R. (1995) 'Whiting Ness (Arbroath & St Vigeans parish), stone drain'. Disc Exc Scot (1995), 92
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99 OSA