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Hilton House
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3040
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3040 (3040)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Forgandenny
- National Grid reference
- NO 1149 2010
- Latitude
- 56.36501
- Longitude
- -3.43432
- Altitude
- 57 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 0, SW 0, NW 5
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Footprint
- 1.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, arable, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1975); Other (1997); Excavation (2009); Geophysical Survey (2012); Excavation (2013); Earthwork Survey (2015)
Identifiers
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK3448
- National record
- record NO 12 SW 189; monument 28352
- Wikidata
- Q31097504
Sources
References
- Lewis, J (2009) 'The Roundel, Craigend, Perth, Perth and Kinross (Forgandenny parish), watching brief'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 10 (2009), 149-50
- Poller, T (2012) The Roundel Geophysical Survey: Data Report. Glasgow University, SERF
- Poller, T (2014) 'Forgandenny, The Roundel: SERF, Excavation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 14 (2013), 154