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Falkirk, Camelon
Falkirk, Scotland · Atlas SC1544
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1544 (1544)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Falkirk
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Falkirk
- National Grid reference
- NS 8632 8115
- Latitude
- 56.00981
- Longitude
- -3.82486
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Other (1949); Other (1953); Excavation (1961)
Identifiers
- HER
- Falkirk Community Trust, Falkirk Sites and Monuments Record 147
- National record
- record NS 88 SE 24; monument 46922
- Wikidata
- Q31108885
Sources
References
- Proudfoot, E V W (1980a) 'Camelon native site'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 109, (1977-8), 112-28
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh