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Myres Castle
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3131
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3131 (3131)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Auchtermuchty
- National Grid reference
- NO 2343 1096
- Latitude
- 56.28495
- Longitude
- -3.23829
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Also recorded
- 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 (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 21 SW 386; monument 348274
- Wikidata
- Q31085692
Sources