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Ben Effrey
Perth & Kinross, Scotland · Atlas SC2648
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2648 (2648)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Auchterarder
- National Grid reference
- NN 9802 1153
- Latitude
- 56.28528
- Longitude
- -3.64895
- Altitude
- 359 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, other burning, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1863); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1956); Other (1967); Other (1992); Geophysical Survey (2011); Excavation (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3133
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK1424
- National record
- record NN 91 SE 4; monument 26073
- Wikidata
- Q31097276
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 (2011) 'Ben Effrey: SERF, Perth and Kinross (Auchterarder parish), excavation and survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 12 (2011), 144
- Poller, T (2011) 'Ben Effrey and Castle Craig: The Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot Project (SERF), Perth and Kinross (Auchterarder parish), geophysical survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 12 (2011), 143-144
- HES 2106 online Survey plan http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1530120