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Tamnafalloch
Stirling, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2616
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2616 (2616)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Perthshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Port Of Menteith
- National Grid reference
- NN 6291 0084
- Latitude
- 56.18046
- Longitude
- -4.21015
- Altitude
- 55 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1863); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Other (1977); Excavation (2011); Excavation (2013)
Identifiers
- HER
- Stirling 307.01
- National record
- record NN 60 SW 3; monument 24404
- Wikidata
- Q31109773
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/