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Arran, Clauchlands, 'Dun Fionn'
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1148
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1148 (1148)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilbride
- National Grid reference
- NS 0464 3384
- Latitude
- 55.55903
- Longitude
- -5.09928
- Altitude
- 163 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1807); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1832); Other (1864); Other (1873); Other (1910); Other (1977); Other (1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4710
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4780
- National record
- record NS 03 SW 4; monument 40197
- Wikidata
- Q31095929
Sources
References
- Balfour, J A (ed.) (1910) The book of Arran, vol.1. Glasgow
- Headrick, J (1807) View of the mineralogy, agriculture, manufactures and fisheries of the island of Arran, with notices of antiquities and suggestions for improving the agriculture and fisheries of the highlands and islands of Scotland, Edinburgh
- McArthur, J (1873) The antiquities of Arran with a historical sketch of the island embracing an account of the Sudreyjar under the Norsemen, Edinburgh
- McLellan, R (1970) Isle of Arran (p 79)