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Abbey Craig
Stirling, Scotland · Atlas SC1592
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1592 (1592)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Logie
- National Grid reference
- NS 8094 9565
- Latitude
- 56.13871
- Longitude
- -3.91756
- 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 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-laced wall, and vitrification
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1784); 1st Identified Written Reference (1792); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1862); Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1966); Other (1973); Other (1978); Other (1981); Excavation (2001); Excavation (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2542
- HER
- Stirling 1217
- National record
- record NS 89 NW 10; monument 47113
- Wikidata
- Q31109809
Sources
References
- Aitchison, N B (1981) 'Abbey Craig (Logie p) rampart'. Disc Exc Scot 1981, 7
- Cook, Bird, Dinning, Rocks-Macqueen, M, C, S and D (2011) 'The Abbey Craig Dig, Stirling (Logie parish), evaluation'. Disc Exc Scot, New ser 12 (2011), 179
- Feachem, R W (1963) Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: Edinburgh (p 157)
- Glendinning, B (2001) 'Wallace Monument Replacement Floodlighting, Stirling (Logie parish), hillfort', Discy Exc Scot, New ser 2 (2001), 97
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- Nimmo, W (1880) The history of Stirlingshire (2nd ed). London
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99
- SUAT 2001 Scottish Urban Archaeological Trust. A watching brief at Wallace Monument, Stirling. Data Structure Report