Home / Scotland / Perth & Kinross / Dunsinane Hill
Dunsinane Hill
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3062
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3062 (3062)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Collace
- National Grid reference
- NO 2139 3167
- Latitude
- 56.47063
- Longitude
- -3.27759
- Altitude
- 310 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 2, SW 4, NW 4
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 2.16 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.1 ha, 2.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North east); Oblique (South east); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Other
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- metal and human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1772); Other (1777); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); Other (1798); Excavation (1799); Earthwork Survey (1834); Other (1837); Excavation (1854); Other (1861); Other (1867); Earthwork Survey (1898); Other (1951); Other
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1595
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK4823
- National record
- record NO 23 SW 1; monument 30660
- Wikidata
- Q31097698
Sources
References
- Alcock, L (1981) 'Early historic fortifications in Scotland'. In Guilbert, G (ed.) Hill-fort studies: essays for A H A Hogg. Leicester
- Brown, T (1872) 'Notes relating to Dunsinnane Hill'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 9 (1870-72), 378-80
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120
- Cotton, M A (1954) 'British camps with timber-laced ramparts'. Archaeol J 111 (1954), 26-105 (p 83)
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Hearns, D (2011) 'Dunsinnan Hill, Perth and Kinross (Collace parish), casual find'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 12 (2011), 146
- 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.
- Pennant, T (1776) A Tour in Scotland; MDCCLXXII (2). London
- Playfair, J (1819) Description of Scotland Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1994) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. South-east Perth: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Robertson, J (1799) General view of the agriculture of the county of Perth with observations on the means of its improvement, drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. Perth
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99
- Williams, J (1777) An account of some remarkable ancient ruins, lately discovered in the highlands and northern parts of Scotland: in a series of letters to G.C.M. Esq. Edinburgh
- Wise, T A (1856) 'Notice of recent excavations in the hill fort of Dunsinane, Perthshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 2 (1855-56), 93-9