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Lady Mary's Wood
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3141
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3141 (3141)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cults
- National Grid reference
- NO 3563 1031
- Latitude
- 56.28092
- Longitude
- -3.04125
- Altitude
- 88 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.3 ha, 0.5 ha
- Footprint
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Other (1894); Earthwork Survey (1925); Other (1935); Other (1947); Other (1951); Other (1956); Other (1964); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 812
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 31 SE 27; monument 31508
- Wikidata
- Q31087557
Sources
References
- Bersu, G (1948) ' "Fort" at Scotstarvit Covert, Fife'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 82 (1947-80, 241-63
- 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