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Arran, Creagdhu
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2468
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2468 (2468)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmory
- National Grid reference
- NR 9975 2082
- Latitude
- 55.44023
- Longitude
- -5.16729
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1837); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1864); Other (1910); Other (1977); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5691
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2361
- National record
- record NR 92 SE 3; monument 39658
- Wikidata
- Q31096042
Sources
References
- Balfour, J A ed (1910) The book of Arran, Archaeology. Hugh Hopkins: Glasgow
- McLellan, R (1970) Isle of Arran (p 81)
- Paterson, J (1837) 'Prize essays'. Trans Highland Agr Soc Scot 9, 132