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Carman
West Dunbartonshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1338
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1338 (1338)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Historic county
- Dunbartonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bonhill
- National Grid reference
- NS 3720 7944
- Latitude
- 55.98029
- Longitude
- -4.61088
- Altitude
- 235 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.17 ha, 1.5 ha
- Footprint
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1956); Other (1960); Other (1963); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 717
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 6926
- National record
- record NS 37 NE 2; monument 42357
- Wikidata
- Q31097769
Sources
References
- Alcock and Alcock, L and E A (1990) 'Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84: 4, excavations at Alt Clut, Clyde Rock, Strathclyde, 1974-75'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 120 (1990), 95-149
- Feachem, R W (1966) 'The hill-forts of northern Britain', in Rivet, A L F (ed) The iron age in northern Britain. EUP: Edinburgh