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Green Craig
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3143
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3143 (3143)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Creich
- National Grid reference
- NO 3229 2154
- Latitude
- 56.38133
- Longitude
- -3.09808
- Altitude
- 189 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 7
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 7
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Footprint
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Hollow Way (South east); Hollow Way (South); Simple Gap (West); Hollow Way (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Other (1893); Other (1925); Other (1947); Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1956); Other (1964); Other (1970); Other (1992)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2446
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 32 SW 3; monument 31823
- Wikidata
- Q31087647
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W 1963 Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- 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