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North Mains, Strathallan
Perth & Kinross, Scotland · Atlas SC2642
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2642 (2642)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Blackford
- National Grid reference
- NN 9282 1581
- Latitude
- 56.32257
- Longitude
- -3.73464
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- before 1200 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1960); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967); Excavation (1987); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7729
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK1353
- National record
- record NN 91 NW 12; monument 26000
- Wikidata
- Q31097231
Sources
References
- Barclay and Tolan, G J and M (1990) 'Trial excavation of a terrace-edge enclosure at North Mains, Strathallan, Perthshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 120 (1990), 45-53
- Barclay, G J (1987) 'North Mains, Strathallan (Blackford parish) fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1987), 58-9