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Auchray
Fort (Prehistoric)
Site Name Auchray
Classification Fort (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) South Auchray
Canmore ID 31961
Site Number NO33SE 55
NGR NO 3645 3492
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/31961
- Council Angus
- Parish Mains And Strathmartine (Angus)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
NO33SE 55 3645 3492
This monument comprises the remains of a fort of prehistoric date represented by cropmarks visible on oblique aerial photographs. It lies mostly in arable farmland at around 160m OD and comprises the remains of a roughly oval fort measuring about 250m E-W by approximately 160m overall.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 17 December 1996.
Note (21 May 2015 - 18 May 2016)
Cropmarks have revealed the site of a fort previously annotated in Roman type 'Site of Camp (Supposed Roman)' on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Forfar 1865, 49.16) and probably the earthwork shown upstanding in this neighbourhood on General Roy's Military Map of Scotland (1747-55). The whole circuit is visible on some of the aerial photographs, variously presenting as cropmarks in wheat or barley and parchmarks in grass, forming a belt 30m deep and comprising four concentric ditches up to 3m in breadth. The plan is irregular, with a rounded W end, but flattened sectors along the length of the N flank and E end, and relatively sharp angles on the NE and SE. The interior, which is featureless, measures about 190m in maximum length from E to W by 110m transversely (1.93ha). At least four possible entrances are visible in the cropmarks on the W, WSW, SW and SE, suggesting that there are probably multiple entrances elsewhere in less well-defined sectors of the circuit.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3069
Aerial Photographic Transcription (20 June 2017)
An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 20 June 2017.
