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Dumyat
Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1593
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1593 (1593)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Logie
- National Grid reference
- NS 8324 9736
- Latitude
- 56.15463
- Longitude
- -3.88132
- Altitude
- 374 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 0.57 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, inland promontory, and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1974); Other (1978); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2182
- HER
- Stirling 1221.01
- National record
- record NS 89 NW 14; monument 47117
- Wikidata
- Q31109820
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1955) 'Fortifications', in Wainwright, F T (ed) The Problem of the Picts. Edinburgh
- Feachem, R W (1963) Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v Edinburgh
- Watson, W J (1926) The history of the Celtic place-names of Scotland: being the Rhind lectures on archaeology (expanded) delivered in 1916. Edinburgh