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Middle Knox
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3108
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3108 (3108)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Kincardineshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Benholm
- National Grid reference
- NO 8171 7027
- Latitude
- 56.82362
- Longitude
- -2.30126
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NO87SW0019
- National record
- record NO 87 SW 16; monument 36843
- Wikidata
- Q31084314
Sources