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Bower Hill
South Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1235
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1235 (1235)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Maybole
- National Grid reference
- NS 2849 1870
- Latitude
- 55.43220
- Longitude
- -4.71221
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Footprint
- 0.38 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1895); Other (1954); Other (1955); Other (1967); Other (1983); Other (1985); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5594
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 5510
- National record
- record NS 21 NE 3; monument 40933
- Wikidata
- Q31103540
Sources
References
- Smith, J (1895) Prehistoric man in Ayrshire. London