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Craigmarloch Wood
Inverclyde, Scotland · Atlas SC1341
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1341 (1341)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Inverclyde
- Historic county
- Renfrewshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmacolm
- National Grid reference
- NS 3443 7185
- Latitude
- 55.91122
- Longitude
- -4.65056
- Altitude
- 155 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.11 ha
- Footprint
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, vitrification, and palisade
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1918); Earthwork Survey (1954); Excavation (1963); Excavation (1964); Other (1964); Excavation (1965); Other (1983)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4379
- HER
- Inverclyde Council (No accessible HER) 1C/026
- National record
- record NS 37 SW 8; monument 42453
- Wikidata
- Q31097819
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1977) Guide to prehistoric Scotland. 2nd ed. Batsford: London (p 147-8)
- MacKie, E W (1969) 'Radiocarbon dates and the Scottish Iron Age', Antiquity 43 (1969), 17-19
- Nisbet, H C (1963) 'Craigmarloch Wood, Kilmacolm', Disc Exc Scot 1963, 42-3
- Nisbet, H C (1964) 'Craigmarloch Wood, Kilmacolm', Disc Exc Scot 1964, 47
- Nisbet, H C (1965) 'Craigmarloch Wood, Kilmacolm', Disc Exc Scot 1965, 34
- Nisbet, H C (1966) 'Craigmarloch Wood, Kilmacolm', Disc Exc Scot 1966, 39
- Nisbet, H 1996 'Craigmarloch hillfort, Kilmacolm'. Alexander, D (ed) Prehistoric Renfrewshire. Papers in honour of Frank Newall. 43-58