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Great Cumbrae Island, Down Craig
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1227
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1227 (1227)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cumbrae
- National Grid reference
- NS 1819 5796
- Latitude
- 55.78098
- Longitude
- -4.89988
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, vitrification, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1861); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1964); Earthwork Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 5211
- National record
- record NS 15 NE 7; monument 40633
- Wikidata
- Q31095858
Sources
References
- Childe, V G (1946) Scotland before the Scots: being the Rhind lectures 1944, London
- Christison, D (1898) Early fortifications in Scotland: motes, camps and forts: the Rhind lectures in archaeology for 1894, Edinburgh
- Cotton, M A (1954) 'British camps with timber-laced ramparts', Archaeol J, vol.111
- Keddie, W (1868) 'On the remains of a vitrified fort, or site, in the island of Cumbrae, with notes on the vitrifies forts of Berigonium, Glen Nevis, Craig Phadrick, Portencross, and Bute., Trans Glasgow Archaeol Soc 1 (1867)