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Wester Carmuirs
Falkirk, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1591
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1591 (1591)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Falkirk
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Falkirk
- National Grid reference
- NS 8491 8102
- Latitude
- 56.00830
- Longitude
- -3.84741
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.2 ha, 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); 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
- Other (1974); Other (1978); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6414
- HER
- Falkirk Community Trust, Falkirk Sites and Monuments Record 753
- National record
- record NS 88 SW 27; monument 47023
- Wikidata
- Q31108955
Sources