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Dunmore
Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1477
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1477 (1477)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fintry
- National Grid reference
- NS 6050 8647
- Latitude
- 56.05075
- Longitude
- -4.24143
- Altitude
- 340 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.35 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.55 ha, 1.35 ha
- Footprint
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1953); Other (1957); Other (1966); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1975); Other (1975); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2575
- HER
- Stirling 617
- National record
- record NS 68 NW 10; monument 45294
- Wikidata
- Q31109747
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