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Cult Hill
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3176
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3176 (3176)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Saline
- National Grid reference
- NT 0246 9650
- Latitude
- 56.15123
- Longitude
- -3.57172
- Altitude
- 257 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.26 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and 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 Map Depiction (1953); Other (1967); Other (1991); Other (2001); Earthwork Survey (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 8542
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NT 09 NW 6; monument 49663
- Wikidata
- Q31088068
Sources