Location
- Atlas number
- SC3125 (3125)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Abdie
- National Grid reference
- NO 2435 1780
- Latitude
- 56.34653
- Longitude
- -3.22555
- Altitude
- 119 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 7
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 5, SW 7, NW 5
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.68 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.18 ha, 0.46 ha, 0.68 ha
- Footprint
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and other burning
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, timber-laced wall, vitrification, and other burning
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1657); Other (1836); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Earthwork Survey (1876); Other (1893); Earthwork Survey (1925); Other (1951); Excavation (1954); Excavation (1959); Excavation (1960); Other (1970)
Identifiers
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 21 NW 18; monument 30074
- Wikidata
- Q31085529
Sources
References
- Butchart, R (1966) 'Clatchard Craig, near Newburgh, saddle quern, spindle whorl'. Disc Exc Scot (1966), 26-7
- Close-Brooks, J (1987) 'Clatchard Craig, a Pictish hillfort in Fife'. 27-30, in Small, A The Picts: a new look at old problems. Dundee
- Close-Brooks, J (1986) 'Excavations at Clatchard Craig, Fife'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 116 (1986), 117-84
- Cruden, S H (1960) 'Clatchard Craig hill-fort, Fife'. Disc Exc Scot (1960), 47
- Cruden, S H (1959) 'Clatchard Craig, Fife'. Disc Exc Scot (1959), 36
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Kemp, C (1967) Clatchard Craig. Newburgh
- 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. Edinburgh
- Ritchie, P R (1954) 'Clatchard Craig, Newburgh'. Discovery Excav Scot (1954), 9