| 词条 | Knock of Alves |
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| name = Knock of Alves | alternate_name = | image = | alt = | caption = | map = | map_type = Scotland Moray | map_alt = | map_caption = | map_size = |relief =1 | coordinates = {{coord|57.648|-3.4040|display=inline,title}} | map_dot_label = Knock of Alves | location = | region = | type = Hill fort, Stone circle | length = | width = | area = | volume = | diameter = | circumference = | height = {{convert|335|ft|m}} AOD | builder = | material = Stone, earth | built = | abandoned = | epochs = }} The Knock of Alves is a small wooded hill that lies {{convert|3|mi|km}} to the west of Elgin in Moray, Scotland, and rises to {{convert|335|ft|m}} above ordnance datum.[1] Its summit is today marked by York Tower – a 3-storey octagonal folly erected in 1827 to commemorate Prince Frederick, the Duke of York; and the Forteath Mausoleum – built in 1850 as the burial place of 7 members of the Forteath family of the nearby house of Newton.[2] The hill is the site of a hill fort commonly classed as a member of a group that also includes Craig Phadrig and Knock Farril to the west and Tap o' Noth and Dunnideer to the south east.[3] These are characterised as massively constructed oblong forts, commonly exhibiting evidence of vitrification.[3] The remains of the fort are now heavily mutilated and defaced and have been damaged by the building of the tower and mausoleum; by erosion from the provision of access roads; by root damage, animal burrowing and slope wash.[4] The fort was surveyed by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland in 1957.[4] The innermost enclosure measured {{convert|125|ft|m}} from east to west and {{convert|75|ft|m}} from north to south and was marked by crestlines and boulders to the east and south, and by more conspicuous though still ruined remains of a wall to the west and north.[1] This was contained within a second enclosure measuring {{convert|415|ft|m}} by {{convert|75|ft|m}} that was marked by a clear line of large facing stones along the south west.[1] The entrance to both enclosures lay on the east, and the smaller enclosure may therefore have been a later structure built over the ruins of the larger one.[1] A third wall surrounded both inner enclosures and was represented only by tumbled stones to the east and north, but by a more substantial scarp studded with stones and boulders to the west and south.[1] Two outer ramparts run around the lower slopes of the hill.[4] These were made up of rubble and earth, with the inner enclosing an area measuring {{convert|500|ft|m}} from east to west and {{convert|180|ft|m}} from north to south, and the outer lying {{convert|18|ft|m}} further out for most of its length.[1] It is traditionally believed that there was an early Christian church, possibly Culdean, on top of the hill, though no traces of this have been found.[5] On the south side of the hill, approximately {{convert|200|m|ft}} from York Tower and the summit, is a stone circle consisting of six boulders of up to {{convert|1.3|m|ft}} in height, arranged with an overall diameter of {{convert|10|m|ft}}.[6] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|url=http://orapweb.rcahms.gov.uk/wp/00/WP000780.pdf|title=Parish of Alves - Fort, Knock of Alves|accessdate=18 October 2015|date=17 April 1957|format=pdf|work=Marginal Land Survey|publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland|pages=1-3 }} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/designation/LB2329|title=Newton, York Tower and Forteath Mausoleum|accessdate=18 October 2015|work=Decisions Portal|publisher=Historic Environment Scotland}} 3. ^1 {{cite book|title=In the Shadow of Bennachie: A Field Archaeology of Donside, Aberdeenshire|year=2009|publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland|location=Edinburgh|isbn=9781902419619|page=100 }} 4. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://canmore.org.uk/site/16214/knock-of-alves|title=Knock Of Alves (fort)|accessdate=18 October 2015|work=Canmore|publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/record/rcahms/16213/knock-alves/rcahms|title=Knock Of Alves|accessdate=18 October 2015|work=Scotland's Places|publisher=Historic Environment Scotland}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://canmore.org.uk/site/16234/knock-of-alves|title=Knock of Alves (Stone Circle)|accessdate=18 October 2015|work=Canmore|publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland }} 4 : Hill forts in Scotland|Vitrified forts in Scotland|Stone circles in Moray|Archaeological sites in Moray |
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