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Sauchie Craig
Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1491
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1491 (1491)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Ninians
- National Grid reference
- NS 7628 8933
- Latitude
- 56.08077
- Longitude
- -3.98957
- Altitude
- 240 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Footprint
- 0.47 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1961); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967); Other (1974); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2120
- HER
- Stirling 702
- National record
- record NS 78 NE 3; monument 45944
- Wikidata
- Q31109759
Sources
References
- 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