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Dow Hill
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3041
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3041 (3041)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rhynd
- National Grid reference
- NO 1484 2146
- Latitude
- 56.37779
- Longitude
- -3.38055
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.85 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1989); Other (1996); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6718
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK6454
- National record
- record NO 12 SW 235; monument 70801
- Wikidata
- Q31097622
Sources