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Castle Law, Abernethy
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3030
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3030 (3030)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Abernethy
- National Grid reference
- NO 1830 1533
- Latitude
- 56.32334
- Longitude
- -3.32264
- Altitude
- 230 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and timber-laced wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); 1st Identified Written Reference (1842); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1860); Excavation (1898); Earthwork Survey (1898); Other (1964); Other (1965); Other (1996); Earthwork Survey (2012); Earthwork Survey (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2477
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK3069
- National record
- record NO 11 NE 12; monument 27917
- Wikidata
- Q31097521
Sources
References
- Christison and Anderson, D and J (1899) 'On the recently excavated fort on Castle Law, Abernethy, Perthshire, with notes on finds. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 33 (1898-9), 3-33
- Cotton, M A (1954) 'British camps with timber-laced ramparts'. Archaeol J 111 (1954), 26-105 (p 67)
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 145)
- Feachem, R W (1966) 'The hill-forts of northern Britain', in Rivet, A L F The iron age in northern Britain. EUP: Edinburgh (p 66-8, 75)
- Hogg, A H A (1975) Hill-forts of Britain. Hart-Davis, MacGibbon: London (170-1)
- 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, 15v Edinburgh
- Oxford North (2012) HILL-FORTS oF THE INNER TAY ESTUARY, PERTH, PERTH AND KINROSs: Phase One. Archaeological
- Survey Report
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99