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Wardlaw Hill
South Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1329
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1329 (1329)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dundonald
- National Grid reference
- NS 3592 3276
- Latitude
- 55.56087
- Longitude
- -4.60327
- Altitude
- 145 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Earthwork Survey (1891); Other (1895); Other (1952); Other (1953); Other (1954); Other (1982); Excavation (1985); Other (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 306
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 6556
- National record
- record NS 33 SE 5; monument 41985
- Wikidata
- Q31103721
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1893) 'The Prehistoric Forts of Ayrshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27 (1892-93), 381-405.
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 110)
- Halpin E 1992 'Harpercroft and Wardlaw hill', in Rideout, J S, Owen, O A, & Halpin, E (eds) 'Hillforts of southern Scotland'. Edinburgh, pp.121-6
- Smith, J (1895) Prehistoric Man in Ayrshire. London.