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Barry Hill
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3063
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3063 (3063)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Alyth
- National Grid reference
- NO 2623 5038
- Latitude
- 56.63947
- Longitude
- -3.20438
- Altitude
- 208 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
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Footprint
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and vitrification
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North east); Blocked (South east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1727); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); Other (1791); Earthwork Survey (1827); Other (1843); Other (1863); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1942); Other (1956); Other (1958); Other (1970); Earthwork Survey (1988); Othe
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1591
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK5185
- National record
- record NO 25 SE 23; monument 31061
- Wikidata
- Q31097708
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
- Cotton, M A (1954) 'British camps with timber-laced ramparts'. Archaeol J 111 (1954), 26-105 (p 83-4)
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Macfarlane, W (1906-8) Geographical collections relating to Scotland, in Mitchell, A and Clark, J T 3v Edinburgh
- Mackenzie, G (1857) 'Description of Barry Hill, near Alyth'. Archaeologia Scotica, 4 (1857), 184-6
- 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.
- RCAHMS (1994) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. South-east Perth: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99