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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 704473
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/704473
NS79SE 35.3 79731 93275
(NS 7973 9327) The Port Street bastion in Stirling Town Wall is a rubble-built structure of one storey, roughly circular on plan externally but rectangular within. The upper storey is of much later date. Near the SE re-entrant angle of Town Wall and bastion, the latter contains a splayed gun-loop. The circular outline of the external wall of the bastion ends on the N in a rocky outcrop which may have carried the wall in a northerly direction as indicated on Laye's plan of 1725. The W wall of the bastion has been disturbed and partly rebuilt; the E wall is 4'3" thick. The structure is roofed with a barrel-vault of rubble. Internally, there is a chamber, 12' x 7', below ground level. The provision of what appears to be a crudely formed garderobe, with a drain, in the N wall suggests that the chamber was used as a prison.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1955
As described.
Visited by OS (JP) 6 December 1973
