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Drummond Hill
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2627
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2627 (2627)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dull
- National Grid reference
- NN 7790 4764
- Latitude
- 56.60475
- Longitude
- -3.99064
- Altitude
- 340 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Footprint
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory, knoll or outcrop, and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1842); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1862); Earthwork Survey (1888); Other (1899); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1974); Other (2001); Earthwork Survey (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 9156
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK382
- National record
- record NN 74 NE 30; monument 24911
- Wikidata
- Q31097127
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Hutcheson, A (1889) 'Notes on the stone circle near Kenmore and of some hill forts in the neighbourhood of Aberfeldy, Perthshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 23 (1888-9), 356-67
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.