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Knockinhaglish
Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1419
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1419 (1419)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Drymen
- National Grid reference
- NS 4875 8490
- Latitude
- 56.03309
- Longitude
- -4.42902
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1861); Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1965); Other (1967); Other (1978); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2553
- HER
- Stirling 482.03
- National record
- record NS 48 SE 2; monument 43449
- Wikidata
- Q31109694
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v Edinburgh
- Smith, J G (1896) Strathendrick and its inhabitants from early times: an account of the parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan and Kilmaronock. Glasgow