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Benarty
Perth & Kinross, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3204
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3204 (3204)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Perth & Kinross
- Historic county
- Kinross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cleish
- Also recorded in
- Fife
- National Grid reference
- NT 1490 9770
- Latitude
- 56.16439
- Longitude
- -3.37192
- Altitude
- 345 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Hollow Way (East); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (West); Hollow Way (West); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1650); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Other (1927); Earthwork Survey (1954); Other (1959); Other (1991); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7601
- HER
- Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust MPK5637
- National record
- record NT 19 NW 7; monument 51074
- Wikidata
- Q31097749
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- 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
- Sibbald, R (1803) The history, ancient and modern, of the sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross with a description of both, and of the Firths of Forth and Tay and the islands in them; in which there is an account of the royal seats and castles; and of the royal burghs and ports; and of the religious houses and schools; and of the most remarkable houses of the nobility and gentry, with an account of the natural products of the land and waters. (New Ed) Cupar