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Langlands
Falkirk, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1502
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1502 (1502)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Falkirk
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunipace
- National Grid reference
- NS 8223 8545
- Latitude
- 56.04743
- Longitude
- -3.89231
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.21 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1861); Excavation (1866); Other (1949); Earthwork Survey (1954); Other (1974); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1731
- HER
- Falkirk Community Trust, Falkirk Sites and Monuments Record 390
- National record
- record NS 88 NW 7; monument 46900
- Wikidata
- Q31108948
Sources
References
- Dundas, J (1868) 'Notes on the excavation of an ancient building at Tapock in the Torwood, Parish of Dunipace, County of Stirling'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 6 (1864-6), 65
- 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