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Doonans Hill
South Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1287
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1287 (1287)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Straiton
- National Grid reference
- NS 3942 0278
- Latitude
- 55.29290
- Longitude
- -4.53056
- Altitude
- 275 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
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
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 Written Reference (1954); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1955); Other (1976); Other (1980); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 6135
- National record
- record NS 30 SE 4; monument 41560
- Wikidata
- Q31103476
Sources