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Craig Obney
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3017
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3017 (3017)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Auchtergaven
- National Grid reference
- NO 0224 3822
- Latitude
- 56.52587
- Longitude
- -3.59078
- Altitude
- 400 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.05 ha, 0.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1864); Other (1879); Other (1957); Other (1969); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK2289
- National record
- record NO 03 NW 1; monument 26986
- Wikidata
- Q31097392
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
- McLean, C (1879) Dunkeld - Its Straths and Glens; or, Central Perthshire Historical and Descriptive. (New and revised edition) Dunkeld