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Bowden Hill
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3132
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3132 (3132)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kettle
- National Grid reference
- NO 3323 0775
- Latitude
- 56.25759
- Longitude
- -3.07936
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.9 ha, 1.8 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1791); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Other (1893); Other (1925); Other (1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 30 NW 7; monument 31283
- Wikidata
- Q31085712
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
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99