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Lower Greenyards
Stirling, Scotland · Atlas SC1594
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1594 (1594)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Ninians
- National Grid reference
- NS 8159 9035
- Latitude
- 56.09127
- Longitude
- -3.90475
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 6
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 6, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 6
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1955); Excavation (1974); Other (1974); Excavation (1982); Excavation (1984); Excavation (1985)
Identifiers
- HER
- Stirling 1184
- National record
- record NS 89 SW 12; monument 47244
- Wikidata
- Q31109737
Sources
References
- Barclay, G J (1982) 'Bannockburn (St Ninian's p), defended promontory'. Disc Exc Scot 1982, 8
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Rideout, J S (1985) 'Bannockburn (St Ninian's p), fort'. Disc Exc Scot 1985, 8-9
- Rideout, J S (1996) 'Excavation of a promontory fort and a palisaded homestead at Lower Greenyards, Bannockburn, Stirling, 1982-5'. Proc Soc Antiq Scotland 126 (1996), 199-269
- Stirling Field Archaeological Society (1974) 'Bannockburn, fortified promontory site'. Disc Exc Scot 1974, 65