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Turin Hill
Angus, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3084
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3084 (3084)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Angus
- Historic county
- Angus
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aberlemno
- National Grid reference
- NO 5141 5353
- Latitude
- 56.67114
- Longitude
- -2.79440
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.9 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.05 ha, 0.43 ha, 2.9 ha
- Footprint
- 4.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1795); Other (1842); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1861); Earthwork Survey (1899); Other (1942); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1958); Other (1978); Other (1994); Earthwork Survey (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 142
- HER
- Angus SMR per Aberdeenshire Council NO55SW0001
- National record
- record NO 55 SW 1; monument 34899
- Wikidata
- Q31095647
Sources
References
- Alexander, D. (1998) Turin Hill (Aberlemno parish), hillfort, ring-forts and quarries'. Disc Exc Scot (1998), 11-12
- Alexander, D. & Ralston, I. 'Survey work on Turin Hill, Angus', Tayside Fife Archaeol Journ, 5, 36-49.
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120
- Feachem, R (1955) 'Fortifications'. 66-86 in Wainwright, F T (ed.) (1955) The problem of the Picts, Studies in History and Archaeology. Edinburgh
- Feachem, R. (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- 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. 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
- Wainwright, F T. (1956) Turin Hill, Aberlemno and Rescobie parishes'. Disc Exc Scot (1956), 3