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Lady Lindsay's Castle
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3044
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3044 (3044)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Blairgowrie
- National Grid reference
- NO 1772 4887
- Latitude
- 56.62449
- Longitude
- -3.34260
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1843); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1863); Other (1899); Other (1974); Earthwork Survey (1987)
Identifiers
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK3740
- National record
- record NO 14 NE 23; monument 28720
- Wikidata
- Q31097530
Sources
References
- MacDonald, J A R (1899) The history of Blairgowrie (town, parish and district): being an account of the origin and progress of the burgh from the earliest period with a description of the antiquities, topography and history. Blairgowrie
- 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
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- RCAHMS (1990) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. North-east Perth: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh