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Craigview
South Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0192
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0192 (192)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballantrae
- National Grid reference
- NX 0663 7983
- Latitude
- 55.07518
- Longitude
- -5.03055
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Other (1981); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5519
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 11200
- National record
- record NX 07 NE 2; monument 60856
- Wikidata
- Q31103485
Sources