Home / Scotland / Fife / Newton, Balbirnie
Newton, Balbirnie
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3121
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3121 (3121)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Markinch
- National Grid reference
- NO 2956 0297
- Latitude
- 56.21420
- Longitude
- -3.13731
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
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 (1977); Excavation (2009)
Identifiers
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 20 SE 16; monument 29954
- Wikidata
- Q31085410
Sources
References
- Gordon, D (2009) 'Newton of Markinch, Fife (Markinch parish), excavation', Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 10 (2009), 80-81