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Arran, Creag Dhubh
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2467
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2467 (2467)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmory
- National Grid reference
- NR 9987 2122
- Latitude
- 55.44387
- Longitude
- -5.16568
- Altitude
- 140 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 3, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Footprint
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2005); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 52162
- National record
- record NR 92 SE 45; monument 275078
- Wikidata
- Q31095890
Sources