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Torr Hill
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2639
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2639 (2639)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dull
- National Grid reference
- NN 8542 4870
- Latitude
- 56.61617
- Longitude
- -3.86869
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, other burning, and palisade
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metalworking
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1862); Earthwork Survey (1888); Other (1899); Other (1942); Earthwork Survey (1957); Excavation (1962); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK966
- National record
- record NN 84 NE 11; monument 25574
- Wikidata
- Q31097108
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
- Hutcheson, A (1889) 'Notes on the stone circle near Kenmore and of some hill forts in the neighbourhood of Aberfeldy, Perthshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 23 (1888-9), 356-67
- Stewart, M E C (1962) Torr Hill Aberfeldy. Disc Exc Scot (1962), 57-8