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Hill Of Gourdie
Enclosure (Roman)(Possible), Quarry (Roman)
Site Name Hill Of Gourdie
Classification Enclosure (Roman)(Possible), Quarry (Roman)
Canmore ID 28952
Site Number NO14SW 33
NGR NO 10957 42323
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28952
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Caputh
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Note (7 December 1992)
In the lower cultivated slopes of the steep SE face of Hill of Gourdie, about 730m SW of Steeds Stalls Roman temporary camp (NO14SW 15), there is a large amphitheatre-like hollow which may have been the quarried source of the pink conglomeratic sandstone used in the legionary fortress at Inchtuthil (NO13NW 5). Measuring about 190m from NE to SW by a maximum of 65m transversely and about 9m in greatest depth, the hollow seems most unlikely to be of natural origin; it is towards this feature that the road-system at Wester Drumatherty (NO14SW 30) is probably directed. Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 7 December 1992. L F Pitts and J K St Joseph 1985.
