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Largs, Castle Hill
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1242
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1242 (1242)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Largs
- National Grid reference
- NS 2156 5880
- Latitude
- 55.78952
- Longitude
- -4.84753
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1855); Other (1891); Other (1895); Other (1942); Other (1952); Other (1964); Other (1983); Other (2002)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10390
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 5741
- National record
- record NS 25 NW 2; monument 41166
- Wikidata
- Q31096003
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1893) 'The prehistoric forts of Ayrshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27, 381-405
- Smith, J (1895) Prehistoric man in Ayrshire. London