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Duncan's Camp
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3015
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3015 (3015)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Little Dunkeld
- National Grid reference
- NO 0460 3927
- Latitude
- 56.53578
- Longitude
- -3.55281
- Altitude
- 155 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 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1864); Other (1867); Earthwork Survey (1919); Other (1957); Other (1969); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK2302
- National record
- record NO 03 NW 8; monument 27000
- Wikidata
- Q31097370
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 (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- M'Laren, T (1920) 'Ancient remains at Birnam, Perthshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 54 (1919-20), 204-10