Stirling by Hannah Blundell
Stirling
Created: 4 July 2021 Edited: 29 November 2023
Stirling
Local History around Stirling
There are some historic monuments around including:
King's Park,cup & ring mark Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cupmarks or cup-and-ring marks and similar rock art SM2540Stirling Castle Secular: castle SM90291Hollandbush,limekilns 100m W of Industrial: kiln, furnace, oven SM4117Abbey Craig,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2542Wallstale,dun Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun SM2110Pendreich,two cairns 960m ENE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM2544Glenhead,standing stones 550m S of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM1550Stirling, Royal Gardens including King's Knot Secular: garden SM90288Stirling,Argyll Lodging,house Secular: house SM90286Stirling Old Bridge Secular: bridge SM90290Stirling, town wall & bastion & Port Street Bastion at 44 Bastion Wynd Secular: bastion SM1754Cambuskenneth Abbey, Cambuskenneth Crosses and carved stones: sculptured stone (not ascribed to a more specific type); Ecclesiastical: abbey; Secular: bell tower SM90055Gillies Hill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2566Glenhead,standing stone 100m E of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM1551Stirling, remains of former bridge to N of Stirling Old Bridge Industrial: bridge, viaduct, aqueduct; Secular: bridge SM8264Pendreich, cairn 200m NE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM7022Fairy Knowe,cairn,Hill of Airthrey Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM2543Stirling, Mar's Wark, uncompleted residence Secular: house SM90289Wester Craigend, dun 300m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun SM2121King's Yett,cairn 300m W of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM2580Kippenross House,burial mound 400m NNW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: mound (ritual or funerary) SM4502Pendreich,standing stone 1280m NE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM2545Wallstale,limekilns 100m W of Industrial: kiln, furnace, oven SM3680Knock Hill,fort 150m NE of summit Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM6478Woodside,homestead 600m SSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: homestead SM4599Sauchie Craig,fort,North Third Reservoir Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2120Airthrey Castle,standing stone 280m SE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM1730Mill of Torr,ring ditch 450m ENE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house SM6477Mill of Torr,fort 300m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM6476Murrayshall Farm, dun 200m SE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun SM7016Common Hill,homestead Prehistoric domestic and defensive: homestead SM1732Pendreich,cairn 1000m ENE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM2537Castlehill Wood, dun 780m S of Touch Mollar Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun SM177Logie Old Church, church and churchyard 30m SE of Garden Cottage Crosses and carved stones: tombstone; Ecclesiastical: church SM2798Castlehill, hut circle 350m S of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house SM7017Arnhall Castle Secular: castle SM5424.
