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Law of Dumbuils
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3034
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3034 (3034)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Forgandenny
- National Grid reference
- NO 1015 1695
- Latitude
- 56.33641
- Longitude
- -3.45492
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.65 ha
- Footprint
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Hollow Way (East); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- metal and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1792); Other (1843); Other (1875); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1996); Other (2001); Excavation (2010); Earthwork Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 9439
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK3171
- National record
- record NO 11 NW 19; monument 28020
- Wikidata
- Q31097557
Sources
References
- Maclagan, C (1875) The hill forts, stone circles and other structural remains of ancient Scotland. Edinburgh
- 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
- 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
- Poller, T (2010a) 'Law of Dumbuils: SERF, Perth and Kinross (Forgandenny parish), excavation, survey and field school'. Discovery Excav Scot, New Ser, 11 (2010), 141
- Poller, T (2010b) Law of Dumbuils Hillfort: Excavation 2010, Data Structure 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