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Dunnottar Castle
Aberdeenshire, Scotland · Atlas SC3112
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3112 (3112)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Kincardineshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunnottar
- National Grid reference
- NO 8812 8384
- Latitude
- 56.94575
- Longitude
- -2.19675
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Footprint
- 1.5 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Other
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1926); Earthwork Survey (1930); Other (1969); Other (1970); Excavation (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 986
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NO88SE0007
- National record
- record NO 88 SE 11; monument 36992
- Wikidata
- Q31084915
Sources
References
- Alcock, L (1981) 'Early historic fortifications in Scotland'. In Guilbert, G (ed.) Hill-fort studies: essays for A H A Hogg. Leicester
- Alcock and Alcock, L and E A (1992) 'Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84; A, Excavations and other fieldwork at Forteviot, Perthshire, 1981; B, Excavations at Urquhart Castle, Inverness-shire, 1983; C, Excavations at Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, 1984'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 122 (1992), 215-87
- Foster, Driscoll and Alcock, S M, S T and L. (1985) Excavations at Urquhart and Dunnottar Castles, 1983 and 1984: interim reports. Glasgow