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Castle Dykes, Kirkton
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3107
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3107 (3107)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Kincardineshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Arbuthnott
- National Grid reference
- NO 8095 7460
- Latitude
- 56.86255
- Longitude
- -2.31390
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.69 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1796); Other (1849); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1864); Other (1899); Other (1956); Other (1967); Other (1982); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NO87SW0018
- National record
- record NO 87 SW 1; monument 36836
- Wikidata
- Q31084288
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
- Holden, T (1998) 'Arbuthnott (Arbuthnott; Garvock; Bervie parishes), pre-afforestation survey'. Disc Exc Scot (1998), 5-6
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99