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Dunbeg
Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1479
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1479 (1479)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fintry
- National Grid reference
- NS 6085 8669
- Latitude
- 56.05283
- Longitude
- -4.23593
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1953); Other (1957); Other (1975); Other (1978); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5681
- HER
- Stirling 614
- National record
- record NS 68 NW 7; monument 45308
- Wikidata
- Q31109757
Sources
References
- Aitchison, N B (1981) 'Dunbeg, Vitrified Rock'. Disc Exc Scot 1981, 7
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh