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Meikle Reive
East Dunbartonshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1466
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1466 (1466)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Dunbartonshire
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Campsie
- National Grid reference
- NS 6392 7893
- Latitude
- 55.98404
- Longitude
- -4.18274
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 1, SW 1, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1953); Excavation (1954); Excavation (1955); Other (1957); Other (1959); Other (1966); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1734
- National record
- record NS 67 NW 6; monument 45194
- Wikidata
- Q31107677
Sources
References
- Fairhurst, H (1954) 'Meikle Reive Fort, Campsie', Disc Exc Scot 1954, 16-17
- Fairhurst, H (1955) 'Meikle Reive hill fort', Disc Exc Scot 1955, 31-32
- Fairhurst, H (1956) 'The Meikle Reive', Trans Glasgow Archaeol Soc, New Ser, 14 (1956), 64-89
- Feachem, R W (1963) Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh