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Knoweside
South Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1240
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1240 (1240)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Maybole
- National Grid reference
- NS 2491 1277
- Latitude
- 55.37768
- Longitude
- -4.76495
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1983)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 21866
- National record
- record NS 21 SW 15; monument 128025
- Wikidata
- Q31103470
Sources