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Stirling Castle
Stirling, Scotland · Atlas SC4228
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4228 (4228)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stirling
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stirlingshire
- National Grid reference
- NS 7901 9407
- Latitude
- 56.12403
- Longitude
- -3.94788
- Altitude
- 68 m
Form and condition
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Other
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1959); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90291
- HER
- Stirling 771.01
- National record
- record NS 79 SE 6; monument 46245
- Wikidata
- Q31109865
Sources
References
- Alcock, L (1981) 'Early historic fortifications in Scotland'. 150-201 in Guilbert, G (ed) Hill-fort studies: essays for A H A Hogg. Leicester University Press: Leicester
- Graham, A (1959) 'Giudi'. Antiquity 33 (1959), 63-5