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Hill of Dores
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3049
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3049 (3049)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kettins
- National Grid reference
- NO 2573 3606
- Latitude
- 56.51078
- Longitude
- -3.20834
- Altitude
- 255 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 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1796); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1860); Other (1976); Other (1989); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7315
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK5354
- National record
- record NO 23 NE 8; monument 30550
- Wikidata
- Q31097673
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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