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Rait
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3047
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3047 (3047)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilspindie
- National Grid reference
- NO 2299 2675
- Latitude
- 56.42670
- Longitude
- -3.25018
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1792); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1861); Other (1899); Other (1956); Other (1963); Earthwork Survey (1989); Excavation (2001); Other (2004)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7251
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK4687
- National record
- record NO 22 NW 6; monument 30457
- Wikidata
- Q31097661
Sources
References
- Cachart, R (2001) 'Rait Hill, Perth and Kinross (Kilspindie parish), Iron Age fort'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 2 (2001), 79
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99
- RCAHMS (1994) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. South-east Perth: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh