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Knockjargon
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1238
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1238 (1238)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ardrossan
- National Grid reference
- NS 2354 4729
- Latitude
- 55.68694
- Longitude
- -4.80864
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1891); Earthwork Survey (1895); Other (1942); Other (1955); Other (1956); Other (1965); Other (1982); Other (1983)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 305
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 5586
- National record
- record NS 24 NW 21; monument 41009
- Wikidata
- Q31095980
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1893) 'The Prehistoric Forts of Ayrshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27 (1892-93), 381-405.
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 110)
- Smith, J (1895) Prehistoric Man in Ayrshire. London.