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Arran, Cnoc a' Chlochair
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2469
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2469 (2469)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmory
- National Grid reference
- NR 9533 3578
- Latitude
- 55.57261
- Longitude
- -5.24808
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1864); Earthwork Survey (1910); Other (1973); Other (1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4528
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4269
- National record
- record NR 93 NE 1; monument 39682
- Wikidata
- Q31096051
Sources
References
- Balfour, J A ed (1910) The book of Arran, Archaeology. Hugh Hopkins: Glasgow
- McLellan, R (1970) Isle of Arran (p 78)