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Gillies Hill
Stirling, Scotland · Atlas SC1514
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1514 (1514)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Ninians
- National Grid reference
- NS 7687 9176
- Latitude
- 56.10274
- Longitude
- -3.98121
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 0.33 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1966); Other (1978); Excavation (1984); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2566
- HER
- Stirling 847
- National record
- record NS 79 SE 60; monument 46246
- Wikidata
- Q31109796
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Rideout, J (1984) 'Gillies Hill (St Ninian's p), fort', Disc Exc Scot 1984, 4
- Rideout, J (1992) 'Gillies Hill' in Rideout, J, Owen, O A and Halpin, E (eds) Hillforts of southern Scotland. AOC Scotland & Historic Scotland: Edinburgh, 127-36