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Echt

Burgh (Medieval)

Site Name Echt

Classification Burgh (Medieval)

Canmore ID 76080

Site Number NJ70NW 21

NGR NJ 738 056

NGR Description NJ c. 738 056

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Echt
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Gordon
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ70NW 21 c. 738 056

For Dunecht village (centred NJ 7534 0908), the estate village of Dunecht House, see NJ70NE 24.

Echt was erected a burgh of barony in 1698.

G S Pryde 1965

Listed by AAS as 'burgh and village of Echt'.

NMRS, MS/712/101.

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