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Maxwellston Hill
South Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0213
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0213 (213)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dailly
- National Grid reference
- NX 2595 9895
- Latitude
- 55.25395
- Longitude
- -4.74007
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); 1st Identified Written Reference (1891); Earthwork Survey (1895); Other (1953); Other (1954); Other (1976); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 11563
- National record
- record NX 29 NE 1; monument 62566
- Wikidata
- Q31103356
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1893) 'The Prehistoric Forts of Ayrshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27 (1892-93), 381-405.
- Feachem, R (1963b) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 110).
- Smith, J (1895) Prehistoric Man in Ayrshire. London.