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Law Hill
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1239
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1239 (1239)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- West Kilbride
- National Grid reference
- NS 2158 4844
- Latitude
- 55.69657
- Longitude
- -4.84053
- Altitude
- 165 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 5605
- National record
- record NS 24 NW 39; monument 41028
- Wikidata
- Q31095867
Sources