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Mid Torrie, 'The Auld Knowe'
Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2614
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2614 (2614)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmadock
- National Grid reference
- NN 6526 0480
- Latitude
- 56.21668
- Longitude
- -4.17434
- Altitude
- 76 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1862); Other (1902); Other (1957); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1972); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3199
- HER
- Stirling 293
- National record
- record NN 60 SE 1; monument 24378
- Wikidata
- Q31109847
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1902) 'Notices of an ancient fort and stone circle at Wester Torrie, near Callander, Perthshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 36 (1901-2), 614-18