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Tom a' Chaisteil
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2637
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2637 (2637)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Monzievaird And Strowan
- National Grid reference
- NN 8247 2170
- Latitude
- 56.37300
- Longitude
- -3.90444
- Altitude
- 132 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 3, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.01 ha
- Footprint
- 0.95 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1793); Excavation (1800); Other (1831); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1863); Other (1967); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK920
- National record
- record NN 82 SW 3; monument 25524
- Wikidata
- Q31097089
Sources
References
- Carment, S (1882) Scenes and legends of Comrie and Upper Strathearn. Dundee (p 101)
- Hunter and Jamieson, J and H M (eds) (1896) Chronicles of Strathearn. Crieff (p 5, 253-254, 374)
- Mayall, C (2003) The Story of Strathearn. (p 27, 104)
- Miles, H (1930) Fair Perthshire. London (p 81-82)
- 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, 15v Edinburgh
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99
- Oram and Stell, R and G (eds) (2005) Lordship and architecture in medieval and renaissance Scotland. Edinburgh (p 30)