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Sheep Hill
West Dunbartonshire, Scotland · Atlas SC1418
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1418 (1418)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Historic county
- Dunbartonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Old Kilpatrick
- National Grid reference
- NS 4348 7440
- Latitude
- 55.93714
- Longitude
- -4.50740
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1893); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1896); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1963); Excavation (1966); Excavation (1967); Excavation (1968); Excavation (1969); Other (1970); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2908
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 7938
- National record
- record NS 47 SW 6; monument 43388
- Wikidata
- Q31097799
Sources
References
- Bruce, J (1893) The history of the parish of West or Old Kilpatrick and of the church and certain lands in the parish of East or New Kilpatrick. Glasgow
- Feachem, R W (1963) Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 118-19)
- MacKie, E 1966 'Sheep hill vitrified fort'. Disc Exc Scot 1966, 24-5
- MacKie, E 1967 'Sheep hill vitrified fort'. Disc Exc Scot 1967, 25
- MacKie, E 1968 'Sheep hill vitrified fort'. Disc Exc Scot 1968, 20
- MacKie, E 1969 'Sheep hill vitrified fort'. Disc Exc Scot 1969, 22
- MacKie, E W (1976) 'The vitrified forts of Scotland', in Harding, D W (ed) Hillforts: later prehistoric earthworks in Britain and Ireland. Academic Press: London, New York & San Francisco, 205-35