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Dun Mor
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2662
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2662 (2662)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fowlis Wester
- National Grid reference
- NN 9077 3032
- Latitude
- 56.45240
- Longitude
- -3.77382
- Altitude
- 465 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); 1st Identified Written Reference (1795); Other (1863); Other (1899); Other (1956); Other (1963); Other (1970); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2286
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK1560
- National record
- record NN 93 SW 1; monument 26219
- Wikidata
- Q31097309
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 W (1963) Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Forsyth, R (1805-8) The beauties of Scotland: containing a clear and full account of the agriculture, commerce. mines and manufactures of the population, cities, towns, villages &c of each county, 5v. Edinburgh
- Hunter and Jamieson, J and H M (eds) (1896) Chronicles of Strathearn. Crieff
- Macara, D (1896) Macara's guide to Crieff, Comrie, St Fillans and Upper Strathearn including excursions to every point and place of interest in the district. Edinburgh
- Marshall, W (1881) Historic scenes in Perthshire. Edinburgh
- Perth Guide (1820) Guide to the city and county of Perth containing a topographical and statistical account of the city, with occasional notices of its antiquities, a description of the environs and of the picturesque scenery in the county in the form of tours, 'Fourth Edition, enlarged, and embellished with fourteen maps, plans and engravings'. Perth
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99