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Wester Pitlour
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3126
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3126 (3126)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Strathmiglo
- National Grid reference
- NO 2038 1163
- Latitude
- 56.29046
- Longitude
- -3.28789
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.49 ha
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1828); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Other (1925); Other (1951); Other (1965); Other (1970)
Identifiers
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 21 SW 6; monument 30344
- Wikidata
- Q31085555
Sources
References
- 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
- Small, A (1823) Interesting Roman Antiquities recently discovered in Fife. Edinburgh.
- Wilson, D (1863) Prehistoric annals of Scotland, 2v (2nd ed). London