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Carlston
East Dunbartonshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1470
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1470 (1470)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Dunbartonshire
- Historic county
- Stirlingshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Campsie
- National Grid reference
- NS 6294 7452
- Latitude
- 55.94416
- Longitude
- -4.19619
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.36 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1955); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- National record
- record NS 67 SW 3; monument 45262
- Wikidata
- Q31107664
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1963) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Stirlingshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh