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Maiden Castle, Bracks, Lomond Hills
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3119
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3119 (3119)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Falkland
- National Grid reference
- NO 2220 0688
- Latitude
- 56.24810
- Longitude
- -3.25710
- Altitude
- 310 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Hollow Way (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1792); Other (1829); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Earthwork Survey (1925); Other (1936); Other (1951); Other (1972); Other (2002)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 813
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 20 NW 7; monument 29936
- Wikidata
- Q31087115
Sources
References
- Miller, Lieut-Col. (1857) 'An inquiry respecting the site of the Battle of Mons Grampius'. Archaeol Scot 4 (1857), 19-52.
- RCAHMS. (1933) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Eleventh report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the counties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan. HMSO: Edinburgh