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Arran, An Cnap
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1149
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1149 (1149)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilbride
- National Grid reference
- NS 0172 4606
- Latitude
- 55.66748
- Longitude
- -5.15430
- Altitude
- 39 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, vitrification, and other burning
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1928); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1977); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5535
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4801
- National record
- record NS 04 NW 6; monument 40219
- Wikidata
- Q31095953
Sources
References
- Paton, V A N (1928) 'Notes on a vitrified fort at "An-Cnap", Sannox, Arran, and vitrified stones at Mid Sannox, Arran, and at Pennymore, Furnace, Loch Fyne'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 62 (1927-8), 239-45