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Down Hill
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2993
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2993 (2993)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glendevon
- National Grid reference
- NO 0007 0364
- Latitude
- 56.21494
- Longitude
- -3.61279
- Altitude
- 360 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.14 ha, 0.38 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1910); Other (1958); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7627
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK1858
- National record
- record NO 00 SW 8; monument 26533
- Wikidata
- Q31097460
Sources
References
- Scobie, J (1910) Dollar Mag 9 (1910), 65-6