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Quinloch Muir
Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1458
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1458 (1458)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killearn
- National Grid reference
- NS 5150 8134
- Latitude
- 56.00199
- Longitude
- -4.38296
- Altitude
- 195 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Footprint
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1957); Other (1975); Other (1978); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7000
- HER
- Stirling 543
- National record
- record NS 58 SW 5; monument 44607
- Wikidata
- Q31109699
Sources