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Great Cumbrae, The Lorn
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1229
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1229 (1229)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cumbrae
- National Grid reference
- NS 1540 5425
- Latitude
- 55.74637
- Longitude
- -4.94264
- Altitude
- 22 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1886); Other (1964); Other (1990); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 5226
- National record
- record NS 15 SE 11; monument 40648
- Wikidata
- Q31095861
Sources
References
- Lytteil, W (1886) Guide book to the Cumbraes