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Falkirk, Callendar Woods
Falkirk, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4167
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4167 (4167)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Falkirk
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Falkirk
- National Grid reference
- NS 8960 7870
- Latitude
- 55.98857
- Longitude
- -3.77128
- Altitude
- 110 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
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.84 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (2002); Earthwork Survey (2011)
Identifiers
- HER
- Falkirk Community Trust, Falkirk Sites and Monuments Record 1188
- National record
- record NS 87 NE 180; monument 282665
- Wikidata
- Q31108913
Sources
References
- Bailey, G (2005) 'Callendar Woods, Falkirk (Falkirk parish), Hillfort'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 6 (2005), 70
- Shaw, R and Edwards, B (2011) Keir Plantation, Kincardine; Castlehill Wood, Kincardine; Callandar Wood, Falkirk: Archaeological Topographic Survey of three Forts in the Scottis Lowlands. Unpublished Survey Report on behalf of the Forestry Commission.