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East Lomond Hill
Fife, Scotland · Atlas SC3120
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3120 (3120)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Falkland
- National Grid reference
- NO 2440 0620
- Latitude
- 56.24234
- Longitude
- -3.22141
- Altitude
- 445 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 4, SW 4, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.15 ha, 0.34 ha, 1.6 ha
- Footprint
- 3.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metalworking and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1792); Other (1829); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Other (1920); Earthwork Survey (1925); Other (1931); Other (1936); Other (1951); Other (1968); Other (1978); Other (1980); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 810
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 20 NW 20; monument 29881
- Wikidata
- Q31087194
Sources
References
- Corrie, J M. (1926) 'Notice of (1) certain bronze implements from Dumfriesshire; and (2) a symbol stone from East Lomond Hill, Fife, recently presented to the National Museum'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 60 (1925-6), 27-34
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Kenworthy, M (1978) 'Lomond Hills survey'. Disc Exc Scot (1978), 6-7
- 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
- Saville, A (2004) 'East Lomond Hill (Falkland parish), Neolithic arrowheads'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 5 (2004), 62
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99