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Middle Bankhead, Denny
Falkirk, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1558
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1558 (1558)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Falkirk
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Denny
- National Grid reference
- NS 8028 8075
- Latitude
- 56.00474
- Longitude
- -3.92150
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 0.44 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1952); Other (1974); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- Falkirk Community Trust, Falkirk Sites and Monuments Record 750
- National record
- record NS 88 SW 11; monument 47006
- Wikidata
- Q31108894
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