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Barr Hill, Kilbarchan
Renfrewshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1401
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1401 (1401)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Renfrewshire
- Historic county
- Renfrewshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilbarchan
- National Grid reference
- NS 4094 6365
- Latitude
- 55.83982
- Longitude
- -4.54171
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); 1st Identified Written Reference (1795); Earthwork Survey (1857); Other (1951); Other (1954)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 7771
- National record
- record NS 46 SW 2; monument 43217
- Wikidata
- Q31104641
Sources
References
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy, 15v Edinburgh
- Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99