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Loaninghead
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2640
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2640 (2640)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Blackford
- National Grid reference
- NN 9238 1005
- Latitude
- 56.27078
- Longitude
- -3.73928
- Altitude
- 155 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); Other (1792); Other (1860); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1956); Other (1967); Other (2000); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7593
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK1270
- National record
- record NN 90 NW 1; monument 25903
- Wikidata
- Q31097196
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
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99