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Down Law
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3133
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3133 (3133)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kettle
- National Grid reference
- NO 3434 0715
- Latitude
- 56.25236
- Longitude
- -3.06129
- Altitude
- 240 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.53 ha
- Footprint
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Barbican (West); Simple Gap (East)
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); Earthwork Survey (1925); Other (1936); Other (1951); Other (1962); Excavation (1971); Other (1984); Excavation (1988); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 807
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 30 NW 21; monument 31228
- Wikidata
- Q31087463
Sources
References
- Mountain, M J (1971) 'Fife, Down Law'. Disc Exc Scot (1971), 57
- Proudfoot, E (1984) 'Down Law (Kettle p), fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1984), 8
- 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
- Russell-White, C J (1988) 'Downlaw (Kettle parish), hillfort'. Disc Exc Scot (1988), 12
- Strachan, R. (1999) 'Down Law Fort (Kettle parish), watching brief'. Disc Exc Scot (1999), 47