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Craigmaddie
East Dunbartonshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1436
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1436 (1436)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Dunbartonshire
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Baldernock
- National Grid reference
- NS 5750 7658
- Latitude
- 55.96108
- Longitude
- -4.28431
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1795); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1896); Earthwork Survey (1958); Other (1960); Other (1966); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1749
- National record
- record NS 57 NE 27; monument 44425
- Wikidata
- Q31107667
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v Edinburgh
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99
- Talbot, E (1975) 'Early Scottish castles of earth and timber - recent field-work and excavation'. Scot Archaeol Forum 6 (1975)