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: 56.5871 / 56°35'13"N
Longitude: -3.0524 / 3°3'8"W
OS Eastings: 335457
OS Northings: 744400
OS Grid: NO354444
Mapcode National: GBR VH.L2WJ
Mapcode Global: WH7QQ.2PQN
Entry Name: Denoon Law, fort
Scheduled Date: 15 January 1953
Last Amended: 24 October 1995
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM138
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Glamis
County: Angus
Electoral Ward: Kirriemuir and Dean
Traditional County: Angus
The monument comprises a hillfort of prehistoric date surviving as a series of earthworks.
The fort occupies the summit of Denoon Law, a hill commanding extensive views to the N and W. It is an irregular oval on plan with approximate dimensions of 110m NE-SW by 65m within a massive bank some 8m wide and 5m high. An entrance is visible on the E side. A series of up to three lesser ramparts can be traced around parts of the NW and NE sides of the fort, possibly relating to a separate phase of enclosure. There are clear traces of substantial rectilinear buildings within the enclosure and possible hut platforms outside.
The area to be scheduled is irregular in shape with maximum dimensions of 230m ENE-WSW by 120m as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
No Bibliography entries for this designation
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Other nearby scheduled monuments