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Braes
Falkirk, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1494
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1494 (1494)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Falkirk
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunipace
- National Grid reference
- NS 7973 8476
- Latitude
- 56.04061
- Longitude
- -3.93211
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.11 ha
- Footprint
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, and vitrification
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1792); Earthwork Survey (1953); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1960); Other (1966); Other (1974); Other (1977); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 456
- HER
- Falkirk Community Trust, Falkirk Sites and Monuments Record 381
- National record
- record NS 78 SE 4; monument 45973
- Wikidata
- Q31108936
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
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99