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Dasher
Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1462
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1462 (1462)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kippen
- National Grid reference
- NS 6685 9419
- Latitude
- 56.12187
- Longitude
- -4.14340
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Other (1978); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7009
- HER
- Stirling 648
- National record
- record NS 69 SE 4; monument 45386
- Wikidata
- Q31109709
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh