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Greenan Castle
South Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1289
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1289 (1289)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Maybole
- National Grid reference
- NS 3122 1927
- Latitude
- 55.43818
- Longitude
- -4.66950
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 4, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.59 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Hornwork (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable, scrub or bracken, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1978); Other (1980); Other (1985); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 319
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 6180
- National record
- record NS 31 NW 27; monument 41607
- Wikidata
- Q31103601
Sources