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Dundurn
Perth & Kinross, Scotland · Atlas SC2625
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2625 (2625)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Comrie
- National Grid reference
- NN 7080 2327
- Latitude
- 56.38405
- Longitude
- -4.09412
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.04 ha, 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, timber-laced wall, vitrification, and other burning
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Other
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1899); Other (1949); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1966); Other (1969); Excavation (1976); Excavation (1977); Earthwork Survey (1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2885
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust 66760
- National record
- record NN 72 SW 3; monument 24873
- Wikidata
- Q31097101
Sources
References
- Alcock, Alcock and Driscoll, L, E A and S T (1989) 'Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 3: Dundurn'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 119 (1989), 189-226; fiche
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120
- Christison, D (1898) Early fortifications in Scotland: motes, camps and forts: the Rhind lectures in archaeology for 1894. Blackwood & Sons: Edinburgh
- Stevenson, R B K (1949) 'The nuclear fort of Dalmahoy, Midlothian, and other Dark Age capitals'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 83 (1948-9), 186-98