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Corseclays
South Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0194
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0194 (194)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Colmonell
- National Grid reference
- NX 0938 8514
- Latitude
- 55.12391
- Longitude
- -4.99108
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1978); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1980); Other (1981)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 11244
- National record
- record NX 08 NE 3; monument 60933
- Wikidata
- Q31103283
Sources