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Dunearn
Fife, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3181
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3181 (3181)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Fife
- Historic county
- Fife
- Parish, community, or townland
- Burntisland
- National Grid reference
- NT 2114 8729
- Latitude
- 56.07196
- Longitude
- -3.26839
- Altitude
- 221 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.39 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.08 ha, 0.39 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1792); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Other (1925); Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1964); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2471
- HER
- Fife Council
- National record
- record NT 28 NW 8; monument 52860
- Wikidata
- Q31088357
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Feachem, R W (1955) 'Fortifications'. In Wainwright, F T (ed.) The Problem of the Picts. Edinburgh
- 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