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High Letterpin
South Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0798
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0798 (798)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Girvan
- National Grid reference
- NX 1942 9211
- Latitude
- 55.19021
- Longitude
- -4.83830
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1955); Other (1976); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 11448
- National record
- record NX 19 SE 2; monument 62089
- Wikidata
- Q31103438
Sources