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Rossie Law
Perth & Kinross, Scotland · Atlas SC2646
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2646 (2646)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunning
- National Grid reference
- NN 9976 1238
- Latitude
- 56.29331
- Longitude
- -3.62105
- Altitude
- 324 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); Other (1860); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1956); Other (1967); Other (1970); Geophysical Survey (2012); Excavation (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2976
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK1397
- National record
- record NN 91 SE 1; monument 26046
- Wikidata
- Q31097262
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
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford, London
- Poller, T 2012 DES entry