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Duncarnock
East Renfrewshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1433
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1433 (1433)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Renfrewshire
- Historic county
- Renfrewshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mearns
- National Grid reference
- NS 5010 5590
- Latitude
- 55.77317
- Longitude
- -4.39130
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Footprint
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1955); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1964); Other (1981); Other (2007); Earthwork Survey (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4339
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 8375
- National record
- record NS 55 NW 3; monument 43882
- Wikidata
- Q31107709
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Newall, F (1958) 'Duncarnock., Disc Exc Scot 1958, 31