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Latitude: 56.6175 / 56°37'3"N
Longitude: -2.4883 / 2°29'17"W
OS Eastings: 370130
OS Northings: 747400
OS Grid: NO701474
Mapcode National: GBR VY.023Z
Mapcode Global: WH8RX.RX9T
Entry Name: Ethie Mains,fort 750m SE of
Scheduled Date: 22 February 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5611
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Inverkeilor
County: Angus
Electoral Ward: Arbroath East and Lunan
Traditional County: Angus
The monument is a promontory fort of the Iron Age, about 2000 years old, situated on Red Head.
The internal area of the fort, measuring 70m NE-SW by 48m
transversely, is defended by a massive rampart and ditch. An entrance causeway passes through the defences to the NW. The rampart has been disturbed by a second World War slit trench which runs along part of its length. Within the interior there is a small sub-rectangular enclosure.
The area to be scheduled is irregular, bounded on the S and E by the top of the coastal cliffs and in part by the field dyke to the NW, and measures 65m NW-SE by 105m NE-SW, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as an Iron Age fort which, when taken together with a number of other promontory forts on the Angus coast, has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of Iron Age settlement in the area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NO74NW 2.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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