<< Our Photo Pages >> Cullykhan - Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle in Scotland in Aberdeenshire
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Cullykhan Alternative Name: Fort FiddesCountry: Scotland County: Aberdeenshire Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Nearest Town: Banff Nearest Village: Gardenstown
Map Ref: NJ83756618
Latitude: 57.685168N Longitude: 2.274183W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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h_fenton visited on 6th May 2011 - their rating: Access: 4 Trenches from archaeological excavations not backfilled, site looks a mess. Difficult to interpret what is at this site due to trenches everywhere. Lack of spoil heaps suggests to me there there was no spoil to backfill the trenches because it was probably tipped over the cliff.
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Bronze Age (incl beakers); Iron Age; Medieval (from 1100 AD); Neolithic; Post Roman, period uncertain; Post-Medieval (from 1560); Recent (20th Century)
Promontory fort; multi-phase site with a scooped platform site on N side; a double-palisade on W entrance with associated gateslot; a large timber-built gateway with gateslot and remains of large oak timbers still in situ in post-holes; remains of houses of different phases; an industrial area with working bowls and hearths, with a complete crucible found beside one of the hearths. A vitrified timber-laced rampart, possibly double on the W side and single in the N; some evidence of a Pictish structure; two flat-bottomed ditches which may belong to the Pictish phase; a 12thC house structure on the Knoll; remains of a medieval castle/hall house with cobbled courtyard and later kitchen wing to the E; a 17th-18th century Fort Fiddes with surviving defence of earthen banks; a 19thC bowling green and a 20thC coastal observation post from the last wars. The larger flat area of the promontory has been ploughed in the 19th and early 20thC according to an estate map. A number of trenches were back-filled after excavation, the remainder were left open at the request of the landowner.
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