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Stirling Town Wall, Bastion
Bastion (16th Century)
Site Name Stirling Town Wall, Bastion
Classification Bastion (16th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Watch Tower; Doocot
Canmore ID 46213
Site Number NS79SE 35.01
NGR NS 79438 93420
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/46213
- Council Stirling
- Parish Stirling
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS79SE 35.1 79438 93420.
(NS 7943 9342) Watch Tower (NR)
OS 6" map (1958)
This bastion in the Town Wall of Stirling is circular on plan and the portion projecting S of the Wall contains three gun-loops. The interior, 13'5" in diameter, is entered from the NE. The structure has been altered, as the floor is now more than 2' above the sill-level of the gun-loops, the interior is brick-lined, and there is a domed roof of rubble with a circular opening in the crown of the vault. This suggests that the bastion has been converted for use as a dovecot at some stage, and it is uncertain how much of the structure that projects N of the Wall is original.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1955
As described.
Visited by OS (JP) 6 December 1973
