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Craigluscar
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3178
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3178 (3178)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunfermline
- National Grid reference
- NT 0598 9094
- Latitude
- 56.10200
- Longitude
- -3.51312
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 0, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.37 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Earthwork Survey (1925); Other (1939); Excavation (1945); Earthwork Survey (1945); Other (1951); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961); Earthwork Survey (1988); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 803
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NT 09 SE 1; monument 49667
- Wikidata
- Q31088237
Sources
References
- Feachem, R. (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Hogg, A H A (1951) 'The defences of Craigluscar Fort'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 85 (1950-1), 165-70
- 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