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Stirling. Port Street, Bastion Wynd, Town Wall Bastion
Bastion (16th Century)
Site Name Stirling. Port Street, Bastion Wynd, Town Wall Bastion
Classification Bastion (16th Century)
Canmore ID 46215
Site Number NS79SE 35.03
NGR NS 79731 93275
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/46215
- Council Stirling
- Parish Stirling
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
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
External Reference (2 September 2011)
Scheduled (with NS79SE 35.03) as 'Stirling, town wall & bastion & port Street Bastion atr 44 Bastion Wynd [comprisuing] five separate sections of the 16th-century defences of the town of Stirling.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 2 September 2011.
