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Pitcairngreen
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3012
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3012 (3012)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Redgorton
- National Grid reference
- NO 0690 2614
- Latitude
- 56.41832
- Longitude
- -3.51074
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1837); Earthwork Survey (1858); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1864); Other (1899); Other (1965); Other (1967)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2641
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK2036
- National record
- record NO 02 NE 14; monument 26722
- Wikidata
- Q31097503
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
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.