Location
- Atlas number
- SC3203 (3203)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Kinross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cleish
- National Grid reference
- NT 0762 9650
- Latitude
- 56.15225
- Longitude
- -3.48869
- Altitude
- 379 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 4, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Other (1903); Excavation (1904); Earthwork Survey (1927); Other (1936); Other (1951); Other (1974); Other (1991); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 992
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK5647
- National record
- record NT 09 NE 2; monument 49629
- Wikidata
- Q31097732
Sources
References
- Abercromby, J (1905) 'Report on excavations at Fethaland and Trowie Knowe, Shetland; and of the exploration of a cairn on Dumglow, one of the Cleish Hills, Kinross-shire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 39 (1904-5), 171-84
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- RCAHMS. (1933) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Eleventh report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the counties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan. HMSO: Edinburgh