This site is entirely user-supported. See how you can help.
We don't have any photos of this monument yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
If Google Street View is available, the image is from the best available vantage point looking, if possible, towards the location of the monument. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.
Latitude: 56.3997 / 56°23'58"N
Longitude: -3.3924 / 3°23'32"W
OS Eastings: 314154
OS Northings: 723916
OS Grid: NO141239
Mapcode National: GBR 20.0RV7
Mapcode Global: WH6QC.VDQS
Entry Name: Upper Muirhall, enclosure 200m WNW of
Scheduled Date: 3 March 1999
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6721
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive)
Location: Kinnoull
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Strathmore
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises an enclosed settlement of prehistoric date, visible as a series of cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument is situated in arable farmland at about 120m OD, close to the SE of a modern covered reservoir. The site commands extensive views, especially to the N and NE. The monument consists of a circular enclosure, measuring about 30m in internal diameter within a ditch or palisade trench some 1m-2m wide. The entrance appears to lie on the NE. The ditch terminals at either side of the entrance are markedly wider than elsewhere.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is irregular in shape with maximum dimensions of 70m between its N and S-most points and 80m between its E and W-most points, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to our understanding of prehistoric settlement and economy.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
Historic Environment Scotland http://www.canmore.org.uk reference number CANMORE ID 28350(accessed on 25/06/2021.
Canmore
https://canmore.org.uk/site/28350/
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Other nearby scheduled monuments