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Montfode Mount
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1241
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1241 (1241)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ardrossan
- National Grid reference
- NS 2264 4374
- Latitude
- 55.65482
- Longitude
- -4.82060
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1891); Other (1895); Other (1952); Other (1956); Other (1973); Other (1982); Excavation (1985); Excavation (2002); Excavation (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3382
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 5715
- National record
- record NS 24 SW 5; monument 41140
- Wikidata
- Q31095990
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1893) 'The prehistoric forts of Ayrshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27, 381-405
- Dutton and Stronach, A and S (2006) 'Montfode Mount, Ardrossan, North Ayrshire (Adrossan parish), watching brief', Disc Exc Scot 7 (2006), 112
- James, H F (1986) 'Excavation at Montfode Mount motte, Ayrshire'. Glasgow Archaeol J 13 (1986), 78-85
- Smith, J (1895) Prehistoric man in Ayrshire. London
- Stronach, S (2002) 'Montfode Mount, Ardrossan, North Ayrshire (Ardrossan parish), prehistoric feature', Disc Exc Scot 3 (2002), 84