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Balsalloch Hill
South Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0790
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0790 (790)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Colmonell
- National Grid reference
- NX 1249 8894
- Latitude
- 55.15919
- Longitude
- -4.94491
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Other (1977); Other (1981)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 11350
- National record
- record NX 18 NW 5; monument 61991
- Wikidata
- Q31103402
Sources