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Dunduff
South Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1236
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1236 (1236)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Maybole
- National Grid reference
- NS 2700 1635
- Latitude
- 55.41050
- Longitude
- -4.73431
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1837); Earthwork Survey (1895); Other (1942); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1955); Other (1967); Other (1977); Other (1985); Other (1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4602
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 5513
- National record
- record NS 21 NE 6; monument 40936
- Wikidata
- Q31103551
Sources
References
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy, 15v Edinburgh
- Smith, J (1895) Prehistoric man in Ayrshire. London
- Talbot, E (1975) 'Early Scottish castles of earth and timber - recent field-work and excavation'. Scot Archaeol Forum 6 (1975),