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King's Seat
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3022
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3022 (3022)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunkeld And Dowally
- National Grid reference
- NO 0094 4300
- Latitude
- 56.56852
- Longitude
- -3.61373
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort, partial contour fort, and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 5, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.06 ha, 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1863); 1st Identified Written Reference (1926); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1960); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (1989); Other (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1598
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK5444
- National record
- record NO 04 SW 19; monument 27172
- Wikidata
- Q31097511
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1966) 'The hill-forts of northern Britain'. In Rivet, A L F (ed) The iron age in northern Britain. Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1994) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. South-east Perth: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Watson, W J (1926) The history of the Celtic place-names of Scotland: being the Rhind lectures on archaeology (expanded) delivered in 1916. Edinburgh