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Coneypark

Falkirk, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1205

Location

Atlas number
SC1205 (1205)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Falkirk
Historic county
Stirlingshire
Parish, community, or townland
Kilsyth
National Grid reference
NS 7702 7918
Latitude
55.98982
Longitude
-3.97303
Altitude
90 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant and Cropmark
Morphology
partial bivallate and partial multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
3
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 0, SE 3, SW 2, NW 3
Number of ditches
3
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
0
Enclosed area
0.2 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and arable

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Written Reference (1796); Earthwork Survey (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1959); Other (1974); Other (1977); Other (1992)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
2579
HER
Falkirk Community Trust, Falkirk Sites and Monuments Record 389
National record
record NS 77 NE 5; monument 45857
Wikidata
Q31108920

Sources

References

  1. RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh