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Latitude: 56.6902 / 56°41'24"N
Longitude: -2.8065 / 2°48'23"W
OS Eastings: 350700
OS Northings: 755671
OS Grid: NO507556
Mapcode National: GBR VP.HL39
Mapcode Global: WH7QF.V3SL
Entry Name: Finavon, fort NE of Hill of Finavon
Scheduled Date: 28 February 1954
Last Amended: 27 September 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM139
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Oathlaw
County: Angus
Electoral Ward: Brechin and Edzell
Traditional County: Angus
The monument comprises the remains of a vitrified fort of later prehistoric date. It is being rescheduled because the original scheduled area was not large enough to include all of the archaeologically important area.
The fort is an elongated oval in shape, measuring approximately 150m by 40m internally, within a vitrified wall some 6m thick. Vitrification is a result of the intense heat caused by the burning of a timber-laced stone wall. Excavations during the 1930s and the 1970s revealed the remains of numerous structures within the fort and provided radiocarbon dates centred on the mid-1st millennium BC.
The area to be scheduled encompasses the visible remains of the fort and an area around them in which traces of associated activity may be expected to survive. It is irregular in shape with maximum dimensions of 190m ENE-WSW by 90m as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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