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Purin
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3117
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3117 (3117)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Falkland
- National Grid reference
- NO 2662 0579
- Latitude
- 56.23904
- Longitude
- -3.18549
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1978); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6938
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 20 NE 26; monument 29783
- Wikidata
- Q31086622
Sources