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Myres Castle
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3128
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3128 (3128)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Auchtermuchty
- National Grid reference
- NO 2325 1107
- Latitude
- 56.28590
- Longitude
- -3.24138
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1976); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 21 SW 23; monument 30304
- Wikidata
- Q31085599
Sources