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Denork Craig
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3166
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3166 (3166)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cameron
- National Grid reference
- NO 4561 1370
- Latitude
- 56.31262
- Longitude
- -2.88078
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east); Simple Gap (South east); Hollow Way (South east); Oblique (North west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1952); 1st Identified Written Reference (1952); Earthwork Survey (1955); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1956); Other (1964); Other (1974); Other (2012); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2380
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 41 SE 5; monument 33011
- Wikidata
- Q31087782
Sources
References
- Feachem, R. (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Feachem, R (1955) 'Fortifications'. In Wainwright, F T (ed.) (1955) The problem of the Picts, Studies in History and Archaeology. Edinburgh