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Norman's Law
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3144
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3144 (3144)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunbog
- National Grid reference
- NO 3053 2019
- Latitude
- 56.36895
- Longitude
- -3.12621
- Altitude
- 285 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 4, SW 3, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.13 ha, 0.52 ha, 1.22 ha, 5 ha
- Footprint
- 5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1823); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Other (1893); Earthwork Survey (1926); Other (1936); Earthwork Survey (1954); Other (1956); Other (1970)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 814
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 32 SW 22; monument 31814
- Wikidata
- Q31087722
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W 1963 Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Feachem, R W (1966) The hill-forts of northern Britain'. 59-87 in Rivet, A L F (ed) The iron age in northern Britain. Edinburgh
- 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
- Small, A (1823) Interesting Roman Antiquities recently discovered in Fife, ascertaining the site of the great battle fought betwixt Agricola and GalGacus; with the discovery of the position of five Roman towns, and of the site and names of upwards of seventy Roman forts: also Observations regarding the Ancient Palaces of the Pictish Kings in the Town of Abernethy, and other local antiquities. Edinburgh