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| style="width:50%"| '''Name''' || Dunshelt Plantation,earthwork
| style="width:50%"| '''Name''' || Dunshalt Plantation
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| '''other names''' || Dunshelt Plantation
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| '''Date''' || Prehistoric
| '''Date''' || Probably Iron Age
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| '''OS grid ref''' || NO 24620 10153
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| '''Latitude & longitude''' ||  
| '''Latitude & longitude''' || 56°16'40"N 3°13'8"W
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''' Dunshalt Plantation''' is a prehistoric fort in [[Woodmill Farm]], near [[Dunshalt]] (or Dunshelt). It is south of the [[River Eden]], and just within the [[Parish of Falkland]].
 
''' Dunshelt Plantation, earthwork''' is a prehistoric fort in [[Woodmill Farm]], near Dunshalt (or Dunshelt). It is south of the River Eden, and just within the [[Parish of Falkland]].


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==Further references==
==Further references==
Earathwork, probably iron age (but possibly much later) on curiously low-lying ground, about 42m. by 26m. within as many as four ramparts and ditches with an average of more than 9m. between the two outer banks, thuogh much of the NE perimeter has been destroyed. SE entrance. The 13.5m. diameter annular bank in the middle is probably later.<ref>[[Gifford, Fife|Gifford, ''Fife'']], page 148.</ref>
Earthwork, probably iron age (but possibly much later) on curiously low-lying ground, about 42m. by 26m. within as many as four ramparts and ditches with an average of more than 9m. between the two outer banks, though much of the NE perimeter has been destroyed. SE entrance. The 13.5m. diameter annular bank in the middle is probably later.<ref>[[Gifford, Fife|Gifford, ''Fife'']], page 148.</ref>
 
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Latest revision as of 10:10, 1 July 2022

Building summary
[photo awaited]
Name Dunshalt Plantation
other names Dunshelt Plantation
Date Probably Iron Age
See map
OS grid ref NO 24620 10153
Latitude & longitude 56°16'40"N 3°13'8"W

Dunshalt Plantation is a prehistoric fort in Woodmill Farm, near Dunshalt (or Dunshelt). It is south of the River Eden, and just within the Parish of Falkland.

HES Scheduled monument designation details[1]
Reference: SM809 Date added: 14/10/1935
Address/Site Name

Dunshelt Plantation,earthwork

Type

Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill fort and promontory fort)

Description

Further references

Earthwork, probably iron age (but possibly much later) on curiously low-lying ground, about 42m. by 26m. within as many as four ramparts and ditches with an average of more than 9m. between the two outer banks, though much of the NE perimeter has been destroyed. SE entrance. The 13.5m. diameter annular bank in the middle is probably later.[2]

Notes