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Randerston Castle
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3174
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3174 (3174)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kingsbarns
- National Grid reference
- NO 6179 1090
- Latitude
- 56.28905
- Longitude
- -2.61885
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.62 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.41 ha, 0.62 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1968); 1st Identified Written Reference (1976); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6574
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NO 61 SW 4; monument 35367
- Wikidata
- Q31088007
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
- Welfare, H (1980) 'Jigsaw puzzle and dustbin: air photography and the Iron Age in southern Scotland'. Scot Archaeol Forum 10 (1978), 1-11