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Dunnicaer
Aberdeenshire, Scotland · Atlas SC3111
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3111 (3111)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Kincardineshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunnottar
- National Grid reference
- NO 8821 8464
- Latitude
- 56.95292
- Longitude
- -2.19544
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and timber-framed wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1819); Other (1832); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1865); Other (1965); Other (1977); Other (1982); Excavation (2015)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NO88SE0001
- National record
- record NO 88 SE 2; monument 37001
- Wikidata
- Q31084403
Sources
References
- Anon. 2015. Earliest Pictish fort found at Dunnicaer. Current Archaeol, 307, 6.
- Noble, G (2015) NORTHERN PICTS: DUNNICAER SEA STACK EVALUATION 2015: DATA STRUCTURE REPORT. Aberdeen
- Ralston, I B M (1977) 'Dunnottar: Dunnicaer'. Disc Exc Scot (1977), 19
- Stuart, J (1856) Sculptured stones of Scotland. Aberdeen
- Stuart, J. (1867) Sculptured Stones of Scotland: vol 2. Edinburgh
- Thomson, A (1859) 'Notice of Sculptured Stones found at 'Dinnacair', near Stonehaven'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 3 (1857-59), 69-75