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Castle Law, Forgandenny
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2994
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2994 (2994)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Forgandenny
- National Grid reference
- NO 0998 1544
- Latitude
- 56.32282
- Longitude
- -3.45716
- Altitude
- 275 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort, partial 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
- 0.93 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.12 ha, 0.39 ha, 0.93 ha
- Footprint
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, vitrification, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-laced wall, vitrification, and other burning
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, curvilinear platforms, and other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1792); Other (1843); Other (1859); Excavation (1892); Earthwork Survey (1892); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1957); Other (1964); Other (1965); Other (1995); Earthwork Survey (2010); Exc
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 661
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK1905
- National record
- record NO 01 NE 5; monument 26583
- Wikidata
- Q31097473
Sources
References
- Bell, E W (1893) 'Notes on the British fort on Castle Law, at Forgandenny, Perthshire, partially excavated during the summer of 1892'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27 (1892-3), 14-22
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120
- Cotton, M A (1954) 'British camps with timber-laced ramparts'. Archaeol J 111 (1954), 26-105 (p 67-8)
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Feachem, R (1963b) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London
- Feachem, R W (1966) 'The hill-forts of northern Britain'. In Rivet, A L F (1966) The iron age in northern Britain. EUP: Edinburgh, 66, 68, 75 fig. 5
- Hogg, A H A (1975) Hill-forts of Britain. Hart-Davis, Macgibbon: London (p 171-2)
- Poller, T. (with contributions by C. MacIver) 2013a Castle Law, Forgandenny Geophysical Survey 2013. Data Structure Report. SERF (http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/archaeologyresearch/projects/serf/furtherinformation/#reports)
- Poller, T. 2013b Castle Law, Forgandenny Excavations 2013. Data Structure Report. SERF (http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/archaeologyresearch/projects/serf/furtherinformation/#reports)
- Poller, T & MacIver, C. 2014 Castle Law, Forgandenny Excavations 2014. Data Structure Report. SERF (http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/archaeologyresearch/projects/serf/furtherinformation/#reports)