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Location: Grampian

Tap O’Noth Hill Fort

Filed under Bronze Age, Hill Fort, Iron Age, Vitrified Fort

This is one of the best examples of a vitrified fort, it is near the village of Rhynie in northeastern Scotland. This massive fort from prehistory is on the summit of a mountain of the same name which, being 1,859 feet (560 metres) high, commands an impressive view of the Aberdeenshire countryside.

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Castle Point Fort, Cullykhan, Pennan

Filed under Hill Fort, Iron Age, Vitrified Fort

10 miles W of Fraserburgh. Access to this promontory fort is by a motorable track N from the B9031, W of the steep-sided valley of the Tore of Troup.

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