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Moncreiffe Hill
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3033
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3033 (3033)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunbarney
- National Grid reference
- NO 1313 1988
- Latitude
- 56.36329
- Longitude
- -3.40771
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Oblique (West); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1860); Other (1899); Other (1964); Other (1996); Other (2001); Earthwork Survey (2012); Earthwork Survey (2014); Excavation (2014); Excavation (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 9438
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK3203
- National record
- record NO 11 NW 7; monument 28058
- Wikidata
- Q31097537
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
- Oxford North (2012) HILL-FORTS oF THE INNER TAY ESTUARY, PERTH, PERTH AND KINROSs: Phase One. Archaeological
- Survey Report