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Castle Dow
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2666
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2666 (2666)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Logierait
- National Grid reference
- NN 9294 5132
- Latitude
- 56.64148
- Longitude
- -3.74730
- Altitude
- 340 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
- 0.5 ha
- Footprint
- 0.99 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); Other (1842); Other (1863); Earthwork Survey (1888); Other (1899); Other (1957); Other (1970); Other (1975); Other (1987); Earthwork Survey (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4432
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK1691
- National record
- record NN 95 SW 14; monument 26356
- Wikidata
- Q31097422
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
- Hutcheson, A (1889) 'Notes on the stone circle near Kenmore and of some hill forts in the neighbourhood of Aberfeldy, Perthshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 23 (1888-9), 356-67