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Saline Hill
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3179
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3179 (3179)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Saline
- National Grid reference
- NT 0428 9335
- Latitude
- 56.12331
- Longitude
- -3.54130
- Altitude
- 350 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Footprint
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- 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
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); Other (1853); Earthwork Survey (1952); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1953); Other (1991); Other (2001)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 8540
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NT 09 SW 4; monument 49705
- Wikidata
- Q31088307
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99