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Cowie
Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1581
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1581 (1581)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Ninians
- National Grid reference
- NS 8364 8927
- Latitude
- 56.08208
- Longitude
- -3.87135
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Footprint
- 0.55 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Stirling 1101
- National record
- record NS 88 NW 10; monument 46868
- Wikidata
- Q31109703
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