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Arran, Glenashdale
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1145
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1145 (1145)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilbride
- National Grid reference
- NS 0308 2520
- Latitude
- 55.48088
- Longitude
- -5.11783
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1864); Other (1910); Other (1977); Other (1989); Other (1993); Other (1994); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5657
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4684
- National record
- record NS 02 NW 3; monument 40101
- Wikidata
- Q31095914
Sources
References
- Balfour, J A (ed.) (1910) The book of Arran, vol.1. Glasgow