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Morphie
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3104
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3104 (3104)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Kincardineshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Cyrus
- National Grid reference
- NO 7064 6384
- Latitude
- 56.76533
- Longitude
- -2.48179
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1988)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NO76SW0008
- National record
- record NO 76 SW 18; monument 36350
- Wikidata
- Q31084259
Sources