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The Welton
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3071
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3071 (3071)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Blairgowrie
- National Grid reference
- NO 1963 4397
- Latitude
- 56.58081
- Longitude
- -3.30996
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 4, SW 4, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.04 ha, 0.09 ha, 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1968); Other (1992); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7173
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK5491
- National record
- record NO 14 SE 35; monument 28903
- Wikidata
- Q31097719
Sources
References
- Maxwell, G S (1987) 'Settlement in southern Pictland: A new overview'. In Small, A (1987) The Picts: a new look at old problems. Dundee
- RCAHMS (1994) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. South-east Perth: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh