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Gargieston
East Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1358
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1358 (1358)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmarnock
- National Grid reference
- NS 4101 3647
- Latitude
- 55.59593
- Longitude
- -4.52476
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1977); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 7367
- National record
- record NS 43 NW 36; monument 42811
- Wikidata
- Q31103825
Sources