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Grinan Hill
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2630
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2630 (2630)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ardoch
- National Grid reference
- NN 8338 0936
- Latitude
- 56.26242
- Longitude
- -3.88434
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Earthwork Survey (1793); Other (1863); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1943); Other (1957); Other (1967); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3088
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK698
- National record
- record NN 80 NW 6; monument 25262
- Wikidata
- Q31097155
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
- Crawford, O G S (1949) Topography of Roman Scotland north of the Antonine Wall. Cambridge
- Roy, W (1793) The Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain. London