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Dundonald Castle
South Ayrshire, Scotland · Atlas SC1297
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1297 (1297)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dundonald
- National Grid reference
- NS 3636 3451
- Latitude
- 55.57672
- Longitude
- -4.59734
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Footprint
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, vitrification, and palisade
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Uncertain (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, AD 50–400, and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Other
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, roundhouses, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1920); Excavation (1986)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90112
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 6541
- National record
- record NS 33 SE 11; monument 41961
- Wikidata
- Q31103682
Sources
References
- Ewart, G, and Pringle, D 2004 'Dundonald Castle Excavations 1986-93'. Scottish Archaeol J 26 (2004), 1-166
- Laing, L R (1975) The archaeology of late Celtic Britain and Ireland c. 400-1200 AD. London