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Myres Castle
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3130
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3130 (3130)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Auchtermuchty
- National Grid reference
- NO 2389 1090
- Latitude
- 56.28456
- Longitude
- -3.23096
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 4, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.07 ha, 0.17 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 21 SW 249; monument 148529
- Wikidata
- Q31085665
Sources