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Cultoquhey
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2634
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2634 (2634)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fowlis Wester
- National Grid reference
- NN 8905 2359
- Latitude
- 56.39156
- Longitude
- -3.79886
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1863); Other (1899); Other (1942); Other (1956); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1966); Other (1970)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2995
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK844
- National record
- record NN 82 SE 20; monument 25441
- Wikidata
- Q31097163
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
- Marshall, W (1881) Historic scenes in Perthshire. Edinburgh (p 300)