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Auchenlaich
Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2613
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2613 (2613)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Callander
- National Grid reference
- NN 6494 0786
- Latitude
- 56.24406
- Longitude
- -4.18105
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.42 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1797); Other (1872); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Other (1977); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6965
- HER
- Stirling 63777
- National record
- record NN 60 NW 10; monument 24330
- Wikidata
- Q31109839
Sources
References
- 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
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99