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Harpercroft
South Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1330
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1330 (1330)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dundonald
- National Grid reference
- NS 3600 3252
- Latitude
- 55.55874
- Longitude
- -4.60187
- Altitude
- 145 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 6.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.7 ha, 6.5 ha
- Footprint
- 6.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Other (1857); Earthwork Survey (1891); Other (1895); Earthwork Survey (1953); Other (1954); Other (1982); Other (1983); Excavation (1985); Other (1985); Excavation (1992); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 307
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 6557
- National record
- record NS 33 SE 6; monument 41986
- Wikidata
- Q31103759
Sources
References
- CFA (1992) 'Harpercrofts, Wardlaw Hill (Dundonald parish): fort'. Disc Exc Scot 1992, 64
- 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.