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Dunmore
Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2612
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2612 (2612)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Callander
- National Grid reference
- NN 6014 0759
- Latitude
- 56.24025
- Longitude
- -4.25830
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 4, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Footprint
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and vitrification
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1777); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); Other (1837); Other (1862); Other (1872); Earthwork Survey (1900); Other (1957); Other (1964); Other (1968); Other (1971); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3101
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 63769
- National record
- record NN 60 NW 7; monument 24375
- Wikidata
- Q31109831
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1900) 'The forts, "camps", and other field-works of Perth, Forfar and Kincardine'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 34 (1899-1900), 43-120
- Maclagan, C (1873) 'On the round castles and ancient dwellings of the Valley of the Forth and its tributary the Teith'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 9 (1870-72), 29-44
- 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, 15v Edinburgh
- Nisbet, H C (1975) 'A geological approach to vitrified forts, part II: bedrock and building stone'. Sci & Archaeol 15 (1975), 3-16
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99 (xi, 1797, 607)
- Thomson, J K (1964) 'Dunmore, Callender'. Disc Exc Scot (1964), 41