© Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Boundary data © Historic Environment Scotland
Greenbank, ring-ditch 250m N of, is a Bronze Age ring-ditch monument located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Ring-ditches of this period typically represent the ditched enclosures of burial mounds or ceremonial sites, and this example contributes to the known distribution of such monuments across northeast Scotland. The site is recorded within the Aberdeenshire archaeological landscape as part of the broader pattern of Bronze Age settlement and funerary practice in the region. Such monuments are valued for their potential to illuminate Bronze Age social organisation and land use, though their exact original form and functions remain subjects of ongoing archaeological study.
Greenbank, ring-ditch 250m N of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM11506. View the official record →
Greenbank, ring-ditch 250m N of, is a Bronze Age ring-ditch monument located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM11506.
Greenbank, ring-ditch 250m N of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM11506.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Greenbank, ring-ditch 365m N of (0.1 km), Delachuper, farmstead 310m N of (0.9 km), Bridge on Old Military Road over Allt Damh Burn (1.5 km).
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any address in Britain — drawing on scheduled monument data, Domesday records, Roman heritage, PAS finds and medieval history to reveal the complete story of a landscape.
Research the area around Greenbank, ring-ditch 250m N of