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Danes' Camp, Links Wood
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3171
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3171 (3171)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Forgan
- National Grid reference
- NO 4132 2508
- Latitude
- 56.41434
- Longitude
- -2.95266
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Other (1893); Earthwork Survey (1925); Other (1935); Other (1951); Other (1964); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 806
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 42 NW 11; monument 33114
- Wikidata
- Q31087849
Sources
References
- 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