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Dron Hill
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3051
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3051 (3051)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Longforgan
- National Grid reference
- NO 2891 3210
- Latitude
- 56.47569
- Longitude
- -3.15567
- Altitude
- 205 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 3, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.55 ha
- Footprint
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); Other (1861); Earthwork Survey (1899); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1969); Other (1972); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3102
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK4801
- National record
- record NO 23 SE 2; monument 30626
- Wikidata
- Q31097684
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120