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Mote Hill
Stirling, Scotland · Atlas SC1512
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1512 (1512)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stirlin
- National Grid reference
- NS 7933 9447
- Latitude
- 56.12770
- Longitude
- -3.94292
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and vitrification
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1861); Other (1884); Other (1954); Other (1973); Other (1978); Excavation (2013); Excavation (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Stirling 768
- National record
- record NS 79 SE 3; monument 46206
- Wikidata
- Q31109696
Sources
References
- Maclagan, C (1884) 'Notices of the fortresses and dwellings of the ancient peoples who inhabited the Valley of the Forth and its tributary, the Teith'. Trans Stirling Natur Hist Antiq Soc 6, 18
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Randall (1794) A general history of Stirling