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Hill Forts and other Settlements Green Castle, Portknockie
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Hill Forts and other Settlements Green Castle, Portknockie
Surface features are limited to a low eroding bank running round the more accessible SW portion of the site.
The usable area of the summit amounts to approximately 70 m by 15 m. Excavation has indicated occupation during the Iron Age, which involved a stockade defence. In the Early Historic Period, the Picts re-fortified the site with an elaborate timber-laced wall, and built a hall-house within.
Directions
- Grid ref: NJ 488 687 - Ordnance Survey Landranger Series sheet no.s 28 & 29
13 miles W of Banff: A942. This promontory fort lies on the coast, seaward from the village of Portknockie. Access is by a rough track which leads from Patrol Road to the harbour.
