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Latitude: 56.6639 / 56°39'49"N
Longitude: -2.4966 / 2°29'47"W
OS Eastings: 369659
OS Northings: 752564
OS Grid: NO696525
Mapcode National: GBR VX.X65N
Mapcode Global: WH8RQ.MRCS
Entry Name: Buckiemill,fort 450m SSE of
Scheduled Date: 8 February 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5591
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Lunan
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.
The promontory is protected on three sides by sheer cliffs. The small internal area, about 16m square, is defended to the NW by a single rampart, 5m wide and 1.5m high and external ditch which is a continuation of a natural gully. Near the entrance, which runs along the NE edge of the promontory, the ditch is 10m wide and 1.5m deep. The entrance is 3m wide.
The area to be scheduled is irregular, measures 50m NNW-SSE by up to 30m, and is bounded by a field dyke to the NNW, as marked in red on the attached map. The modern field dyke is specifically excluded from the scheduling.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a promontory fort of the Iron Age which has the potential to enhance our understanding of Iron Age settlement in the area; taken together with a number of other promontory forts on the Angus coast it has the potential to increase considerably our knowledge of later prehistoric settlement patterns in the area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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