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Hill of Dun
West Dunbartonshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1417
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1417 (1417)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Historic county
- Dunbartonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Old Kilpatrick
- National Grid reference
- NS 4480 7439
- Latitude
- 55.93748
- Longitude
- -4.48629
- Altitude
- 205 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 4, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); Other (1963)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 7879
- National record
- record NS 47 SW 1; monument 43329
- Wikidata
- Q31097761
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1965) The North Britons: the prehistory of a Border people. Hutchinson: London (p 177)