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Arngibbon

Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1460

Location

Atlas number
SC1460 (1460)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Stirling
Historic county
Stirlingshire
Parish, community, or townland
Kippen
National Grid reference
NS 5998 9397
Latitude
56.11793
Longitude
-4.25370
Altitude
50 m

Form and condition

Type
promontory fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial univallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
1
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
2
Enclosed area
0.08 ha
Footprint
0.13 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (South east)

Landscape

Topographic position
inland promontory
Aspect
level
Land use
woodland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Earthwork Survey (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1966); Other (1978); Other (2000)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
2578
HER
Stirling 568
National record
record NS 59 SE 1; monument 44647
Wikidata
Q31109701

Sources