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The Tappoch, Torwood
Falkirk, Scotland · Atlas SC1559
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1559 (1559)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Falkirk
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunipace
- National Grid reference
- NS 8333 8498
- Latitude
- 56.04353
- Longitude
- -3.87438
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.11 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1861); Excavation (1864); Earthwork Survey (1880); Excavation (1948); Other (1949); Excavation (1949); Earthwork Survey (1953); Excavation (1964); Other (1974); Earthwork Survey (2014); Excavation (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1738
- HER
- Falkirk Community Trust, Falkirk Sites and Monuments Record 768
- National record
- record NS 88 SW 1; monument 47004
- Wikidata
- Q31108953
Sources
References
- Aitchison, N (1979) 'Tappoch broch (Dunipace p), vitrified stone; daub', Disc Exc Scot 1979, 3
- Cavers, G and Hudson G 2014 Torwood and Coldoch Brochs, Stirlingshire Archaeological Survey Report, 22600,
- 24th February 2014. AOC Archaeology for Archaeology Scotland
- Dundas, J (1866) 'Note on the excavation of an ancient building at Tapock in the Torwood, Parish of Dunipace, County of Stirling'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 6 (1964-6), 259-65
- Feachem, R W (1963) Guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 172)
- Hunter, D M (1949a) Proc Falkirk Archaeol Natur Hist Soc 4 (1946-9), 89ff
- Hunter, D M (1949b) 'Excavations at Broch of Tappoch, Tor Wood, Stirlingshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 83 (1948-9), 233-5
- MacKie, E W (1964) 'Torwood, the Tappoch broch', Disc Exc Scot 1964, 50
- MacKie, E W (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands. BAR British series 444(II), 444(1). Archaeopress: Oxford
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh