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Myot Hill
Falkirk, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1492
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1492 (1492)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Falkirk
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Denny
- National Grid reference
- NS 7808 8250
- Latitude
- 56.01990
- Longitude
- -3.95755
- Altitude
- 212 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
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); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1959); Other (1964); Other (1974); Other (1977); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2381
- HER
- Falkirk Community Trust, Falkirk Sites and Monuments Record 391
- National record
- record NS 78 SE 1; monument 45957
- Wikidata
- Q31108932
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
- Watson, W J (1926) The history of the Celtic place-names of Scotland: being the Rhind lectures on archaeology (expanded) delivered in 1916. Edinburgh