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Black Cairn
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3124
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3124 (3124)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Abdie
- National Grid reference
- NO 2334 1714
- Latitude
- 56.34044
- Longitude
- -3.24169
- Altitude
- 235 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1547); Other (1933); Earthwork Survey (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970)
Identifiers
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 21 NW 12; monument 30068
- Wikidata
- Q31085488
Sources
References
- Laing, A (1876) Lindores Abbey and its Burgh of Newburgh; their history and annals. Edmonston and Douglas: Edinburgh
- 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