Location
- Atlas number
- SC3127 (3127)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Falkland
- National Grid reference
- NO 2463 1016
- Latitude
- 56.27795
- Longitude
- -3.21883
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.72 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Earthwork Survey (1925); Other (1935); Other (1951); Other (1967)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 809
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 21 SW 14; monument 30290
- Wikidata
- Q31087315
Sources
References
- 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