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Castle Hill
East Dunbartonshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1487
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1487 (1487)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Dunbartonshire
- Historic county
- Dunbartonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkintilloch
- National Grid reference
- NS 7091 7610
- Latitude
- 55.96056
- Longitude
- -4.06943
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1977); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90008
- National record
- record NS 77 NW 28; monument 45894
- Wikidata
- Q31107688
Sources