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Leckie
Stirling, Scotland · Atlas SC1471
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1471 (1471)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gargunnock
- National Grid reference
- NS 6926 9399
- Latitude
- 56.12074
- Longitude
- -4.10457
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.01 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1970); Excavation (1971); Other (1971); Excavation (1972); Excavation (1973); Excavation (1974); Earthwork Survey (1975); Other (1975); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3099
- HER
- Stirling 656
- National record
- record NS 69 SE 12; monument 45379
- Wikidata
- Q31109724
Sources
References
- MacKie, E W (1970) 'Leckie, dun', Disc Exc Scot 1970, 46
- MacKie, E W (1971) 'Leckie, dun', Disc Exc Scot 1971, 42-3
- MacKie, E W (1972) 'Leckie, dun', Disc Exc Scot 1972, 38
- MacKie, E W (1973) 'Leckie, broch and dun', Disc Exc Scot 1973, 54-5
- MacKie, E W (1974) 'Gargunnock, Leckie broch and dun', Disc Exc Scot 1974, 63
- MacKie, E W (1975) 'Gargunnock, Leckie broch and dun', Disc Exc Scot 1975, 54
- MacKie, E W (1982) 'The Leckie broch, Stirlingshire: an interim report', Glasgow Archaeol J 9 (1982), 60-72
- Mackie, E W (1987) 'Leckie Broch - The impact on the Scottish Iron Age', Glasgow Archaeol J 14 (1987), 1-18
- MacKie, E W (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands, BAR British series 444(II), 444(1), 2 V Oxford