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Arran, Drumadoon, The Doon
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2450
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2450 (2450)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmory
- National Grid reference
- NR 8860 2925
- Latitude
- 55.51117
- Longitude
- -5.34964
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.57 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1695); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1864); Earthwork Survey (1910); Other (1977); Other (1987); Other (2009); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4415
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3790
- National record
- record NR 82 NE 1; monument 39199
- Wikidata
- Q31096029
Sources
References
- Balfour, J A (ed.) (1910) The book of Arran, Archaeology. Hugh Hopkins: Glasgow
- Headrick, J (1807) View of the mineralogy, agriculture, manufactures and fisheries of the island of Arran, with notices of antiquities and suggestions for improving the agriculture and fisheries of the highlands and islands of Scotland, Edinburgh (p 158)
- Martin, M (1703) A description of the Western Islands of Scotland. Andrew Bell: London
- McLellan, R (1977) Ancient monuments of Arran: official guide, Edinburgh (p 78)