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Gallamuir
Fort (Prehistoric)
Site Name Gallamuir
Classification Fort (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 46889
Site Number NS88NW 3
NGR NS 84548 87724
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Stirling
- Parish St Ninians
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS88NW 3 8453 8774.
(NS 845 877) Crop-marks on APs (CPE/Scot/UK 251: 5083-4) reveal the double ditches of an oval earthwork 250 yds ESE of Gallamuir farmhouse. No traces of this structure can normally be seen, but at the date of the visit, when the site was covered with wheat stubble, stretches of both ditches were clearly visible due to the stronger growth of the stubble overlying them. The ditches are 20' to 30' apart, and the enclosed area is 300' ESE-WNW by 240'. Two narrow gaps in the inner ditch, on the N and E arcs, may represent original entrances.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1951
NS 8453 8774: this earthwork is situated on the end of a greatly sloping ridge. Its site is represented by ploughed down scarps.
(Site) surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 31 January 1974
Note (1979)
Gallamuir NS 845 877 NS88NW 3
The crop-marks of this earthwork measure about 90m from SE to NW by 76m transversely within double ditches.
RCAHMS 1979
(RCAHMS 1963, p. 420, no. 495)
Note (19 August 2014 - 23 May 2016)
Situated on a terrace that drops away along its SW margin into a shallow gully, cropmarks have revealed an oval fort measuring about 90m from NW to SE by 70m transversely (0.5ha) within twin ditches 3-4m in breadth and set about 6m apart; allowing 5m for the internal rampart, the interior extends to at least 0.3ha. Several maculae visible in the interior may indicate the positions of structures, but the position of the entrance is not known, neither of the gaps observed in the cropmarks on the ground by RCAHMS investigators in 1951 appear on more recent aerial photographs.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC1583
Note (24 November 2022)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from FORT (PERIOD UNASSIGNED).
