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Dunwan Hill
East Renfrewshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1429
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1429 (1429)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Renfrewshire
- Historic county
- Renfrewshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eaglesham
- National Grid reference
- NS 5468 4895
- Latitude
- 55.71222
- Longitude
- -4.31459
- Altitude
- 295 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.94 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.27 ha, 0.94 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1966); Earthwork Survey (2005); Other (2011); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12882
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 8264
- National record
- record NS 54 NW 1; monument 43771
- Wikidata
- Q31107698
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Hunter and Hunter, R and S (2005) 'Farm survey (Eaglesham parish), survey' Disc Exc Scot 6 (2005), 58