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Nether Drums
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3118
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3118 (3118)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Falkland
- National Grid reference
- NO 2743 0628
- Latitude
- 56.24356
- Longitude
- -3.17249
- Altitude
- 95 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.09 ha, 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.35 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6937
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 20 NE 97; monument 29864
- Wikidata
- Q31086802
Sources