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Orchill
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2631
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2631 (2631)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ardoch
- National Grid reference
- NN 8697 1224
- Latitude
- 56.28915
- Longitude
- -3.82765
- Altitude
- 179 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1900); Excavation (1900); Other (1937); Other (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967); Other (1975); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3605
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK782
- National record
- record NN 81 SE 2; monument 25372
- Wikidata
- Q31097162
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
- Christison, D (1901) 'Excavation undertaken by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland of earthworks adjoining the "Roman road" between Ardoch and Dupplin, Perthshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 35 (1900-1), 15-43
- Crawford, O G S (1949) Topography of Roman Scotland north of the Antonine Wall. Cambridge