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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Evelick Hill FortCountry: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Rait
Map Ref: NO199257
Latitude: 56.416701N Longitude: 3.299924W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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https://canmore.org.uk/site/28108/evelick
“This fort takes in a hillock forming a local summit on the edge of the escarpment forming the shoulder of Pole Hill above Evelick. Pear-shaped on plan, it measures 107m from E to W by up to 78m transversely (0.58ha) at the E end, though the precise course of the inner rampart at this end is uncertain and it may originally have pursued a more direct course across the N spur of the hillock to the lip of the escarpment, where faint traces of a scarp can be detected beneath a later field-bank. On the W and NW, this rampart forms a more substantial bank, measuring up to 8m in thickness by 2m in height externally, and it is accompanied by no fewer than three outer ramparts, the outermost flanked by ditches on either side and accompanied by a counterscarp bank. This is the easiest line of approach and this belt of defences is in excess of 30m in depth, though the pair of ditches and their medial rampart appear to be an addition, blocking an earlier entrance through the inner defences; the inner gap is also partially blocked. Two other entrances can be seen, one via a trackway that obliquely mounts the escarpment on the S to expose the lefthand side of the visitor, and the other between the stone-lined terminal of the belt of defences and the lip of a gully that breaks through the escarpment on the N, in this case exposing the righthand side of visitors; ditch-like features crossing a spine in the floor of this gully are hollowed trackways. The whole fort has been enclosed within a later field and the interior has been cultivated. Nevertheless, the stances of at least four timber round-houses can be identified, the most prominent being a ring-ditch house some 14m in overall diameter at the centre, and others by low crescentic scarps. Apart from the later field-bank, there is a two compartment rectangular structure overlying the outer defences on the W.”
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