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Evelick
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3038
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3038 (3038)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilspindie
- National Grid reference
- NO 1993 2572
- Latitude
- 56.41695
- Longitude
- -3.29940
- Altitude
- 270 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.58 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North); Oblique (South); Simple Gap (South); Blocked (West); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1843); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1862); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1956); Other (1963); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (1989); Other (1992); Other (1994); Earthwork Survey (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3095
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK3243
- National record
- record NO 12 NE 12; monument 28108
- Wikidata
- Q31097601
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
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- 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 Two, Archaeological
- Survey Report
- RCAHMS (1994) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. South-east Perth: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh