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Ogle Hill
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2647
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2647 (2647)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Auchterarder
- National Grid reference
- NN 9694 1148
- Latitude
- 56.28460
- Longitude
- -3.66636
- Altitude
- 245 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1860); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1956); Other (1967); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (2015); Geophysical Survey (2015); Excavation (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3073
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK1419
- National record
- record NN 91 SE 3; monument 26068
- Wikidata
- Q31097265
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
- Poller, T (2015) Ogle Hill Excavations 2015; Data Structure Report. Available at http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/archaeologyresearch/projects/serf/furtherinformation/