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Red Head

Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3102

Location

Atlas number
SC3102 (3102)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Angus
Historic county
Angus
Parish, community, or townland
Inverkeilor
National Grid reference
NO 7013 4740
Latitude
56.61756
Longitude
-2.48831
Altitude
75 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 0, NW 1
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.28 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 Written Reference (1961); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1978); Other (1993)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
5611
HER
Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO74NW0002
National record
record NO 74 NW 2; monument 36217
Wikidata
Q31095728

Sources