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Milquhanzie Hill
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2636
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2636 (2636)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fowlis Wester
- National Grid reference
- NN 8944 2494
- Latitude
- 56.40378
- Longitude
- -3.79311
- Altitude
- 345 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.14 ha, 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1966); Other (1979); Earthwork Survey (1996); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7125
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK858
- National record
- record NN 82 SE 37; monument 25458
- Wikidata
- Q31097171
Sources
References
- Sherriff, J (1979) 'Milquanzie hill fort (Fowlis Wester), flint flake'. Disc Exc Scot (1979), 43, no. 255