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Dumbarton Castle
West Dunbartonshire, Scotland · Atlas SC1365
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1365 (1365)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Historic county
- Dunbartonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dumbarton
- National Grid reference
- NS 3998 7448
- Latitude
- 55.93676
- Longitude
- -4.56330
- Altitude
- 74 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, excavated
- timber-laced wall, vitrification, and other burning
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800 and after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Other
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and metalworking
- Investigations
- Other (1955); Excavation (1974); Excavation (1975); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90107
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 7926
- National record
- record NS 47 SW 5; monument 43376
- Wikidata
- Q31097783
Sources
References
- Alcock, L (1976) 'A multi-disciplinary chronology for Alt Clut, Castle Rock, Dumbarton'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 107 (1975-6), 103-13
- 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; fiche 2
- Alcock, L, Bateson, J D and Webster, P V (1992) 'Excavations at Alt Clut, 1974-5: catalogue of coins, metal objects and Romano-British pottery', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 22 (1992), 289-93.
- Feachem, R W (1963) Guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford, London (p 118)