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Pitscottie
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3170
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3170 (3170)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kemback
- National Grid reference
- NO 4195 1448
- Latitude
- 56.31927
- Longitude
- -2.94000
- Altitude
- 90 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.11 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
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
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1975); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 41 SW 37; monument 33046
- Wikidata
- Q31086258
Sources
References
- Ross, D W (1975) 'Pitscottie, fort (prob. remains of)'. Disc Exc Scot (1975), 24-5