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Castle Hill, Auchenblae
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3110
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3110 (3110)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Kincardineshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fordoun
- National Grid reference
- NO 7302 7882
- Latitude
- 56.90002
- Longitude
- -2.44450
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- 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
- Other (1967); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NO77NW0038
- National record
- record NO 77 NW 11; monument 36436
- Wikidata
- Q31084371
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/