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Deuchny Wood
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3039
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3039 (3039)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kinnoull
- National Grid reference
- NO 1525 2368
- Latitude
- 56.39781
- Longitude
- -3.37459
- 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 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- animal bones and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1922); Earthwork Survey (1922); Other (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1963); Other (1989); Other (1995); Earthwork Survey (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6199
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK3327
- National record
- record NO 12 SE 3; monument 28217
- Wikidata
- Q31097612
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1994) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. South-east Perth: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Watson, R R B (1923) 'The Deuchny hill fort - the Chalmers-Jervise Prize essay'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 57 (1922-3), 303-7
- Watson, R R B (1929) 'The Deuchny hill fort'. Trans Proc Perthshire Soc Natur Sci 8 (1929), 3-7