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Dundee Law
City of Dundee, Scotland · Atlas SC3068
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3068 (3068)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Dundee
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dundee
- National Grid reference
- NO 3914 3131
- Latitude
- 56.47003
- Longitude
- -2.98944
- Altitude
- 174 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, vitrification, and other burning
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, AD 50–400, and undated
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1793); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1852); Other (1857); Other (1872); Other (1880); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1923); Other (1956); Other (1958); Excavation (1964); Other (1969); Excavation (1990); Excavation (1993
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2878
- HER
- City of Dundee per Canmore 31936
- National record
- record NO 33 SE 32; monument 31936
- Wikidata
- Q31117908
Sources
References
- Boyd, J D (1964) 'Dundee Law'. Disc Exc Scot (1964, 1
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120
- Driscoll, S T (1993) 'Dundee Law (Dundee parish): multi-period Iron Age/Roman, medieval, industrial'. Disc Exc Scot (1993), 97
- Driscoll, S T (1995) 'Excavations on Dundee Law, 1993'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 125 (1995), 1091-1108
- Rideout, J S (1990) 'Dundee Law (Dundee parish), fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1990), 39
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99
- Warden, A J (1880-5) Angus or Forfarshire: the land and people, descriptive and historical (5v). Dundee