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Dunlappie
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4173
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4173 (4173)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stracathro
- National Grid reference
- NO 5831 6820
- Latitude
- 56.80359
- Longitude
- -2.68414
- Altitude
- 88 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO56NE0033
- National record
- record NO 56 NE 33; monument 73224
- Wikidata
- Q31095512
Sources
References
- Jervise, A (1853) The history and traditions of the land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns, with notices of Alyth and Meigle. Edinburgh
- Warden, A J (1880-5) Angus or Forfarshire: the land and people, descriptive and historical (5v). Dundee