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Kay Craig
Perth & Kinross, Scotland · Atlas SC2668
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2668 (2668)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Auchterarder
- National Grid reference
- NN 9744 1287
- Latitude
- 56.29719
- Longitude
- -3.65883
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); Other (1979); Other (2002); Earthwork Survey (2014); Excavation (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 9373
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK1405
- National record
- record NN 91 SE 17; monument 26054
- Wikidata
- Q31097448
Sources
References
- Sherriff, J (1979) 'Kay Craig (Auchterarder p) enclosure'. Disc Exc Scot (1979), 44