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Walls Hill
Renfrewshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1389
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1389 (1389)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Renfrewshire
- Historic county
- Renfrewshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lochwinnoch
- National Grid reference
- NS 4117 5880
- Latitude
- 55.79635
- Longitude
- -4.53520
- Altitude
- 225 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 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 7 ha
- Footprint
- 7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1954); Excavation (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1957); Other (1964); Other (1983); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5213
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 7566
- National record
- record NS 45 NW 1; monument 43011
- Wikidata
- Q31104667
Sources
References
- DES (1977) 'Small finds', Disc Exc Scot 1977, 44
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Newall, F (1956) 'Walls Hill', Disc Exc Scot 1956, 20-1
- Newall, F (1960) Excavations at Walls Hill, Renfrewshire. Paisley
- Newall, F (1970) 'Small finds. Walls Hill, Lochwinnoch; East Green Farm, Kilmacolm', Disc Exc Scot 1970, 45