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Glenduckie Hill

Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3122

Location

Atlas number
SC3122 (3122)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Fife
Historic county
Fife
Parish, community, or townland
Flisk
National Grid reference
NO 2813 1931
Latitude
56.36068
Longitude
-3.16482
Altitude
195 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial univallate and partial bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
2
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
3
Enclosed area
0.46 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
stone wall and rubble
Also recorded
multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop and spur
Aspect
level
Land use
woodland, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
round stone structures
Investigations
Earthwork Survey (1952); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970)

Identifiers

HER
Fife Council
National record
record NO 21 NE 5; monument 30060
Wikidata
Q31085436

Sources