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The Knock of Alves is a small wooded hill that lies to the west of Elgin in Moray, Scotland, and rises to above ordnance datum. 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. 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. These are characterised as massively constructed oblong forts, commonly exhibiting evidence of vitrification.〔 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. The fort was surveyed by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland in 1957.〔 The innermost enclosure measured from east to west and 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.〔 This was contained within a second enclosure measuring by that was marked by a clear line of large facing stones along the south west.〔 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.〔 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.〔 Two outer ramparts run around the lower slopes of the hill.〔 These were made up of rubble and earth, with the inner enclosing an area measuring from east to west and from north to south, and the outer lying further out for most of its length.〔 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. On the south side of the hill, approximately from York Tower and the summit, is a stone circle consisting of six boulders of up to in height, arranged with an overall diameter of . ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Knock of Alves」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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