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Castle Craig
Clackmannan, Scotland · Atlas SC1858
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1858 (1858)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clackmannan
- Historic county
- Clackmannanshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tillicoultry
- National Grid reference
- NS 9116 9769
- Latitude
- 56.15947
- Longitude
- -3.75402
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, and after AD 800
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1795); Other (1875); Other (1932); Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1953); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Stirling 1382
- National record
- record NS 99 NW 5; monument 48294
- Wikidata
- Q31097052
Sources
References
- Cruden, S H (1964) 'Castle craig, Tillicoultry, Fife'. Disc Exc Scot 1964, 57
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Maclagan, C (1875) The hill forts, stone circles and other structural remains of ancient Scotland, Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1933) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Eleventh report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the counties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Robertson, A S (1970) 'Roman finds from non-Roman sites in Scotland', Britannia 1 (1970)