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Auchenblae
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3109
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3109 (3109)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Kincardineshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fordoun
- National Grid reference
- NO 7283 7854
- Latitude
- 56.89752
- Longitude
- -2.44764
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 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 (1984); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NO77NW0056
- National record
- record NO 77 NW 47; monument 36478
- Wikidata
- Q31084346
Sources