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Craighead Law
East Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4231
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4231 (4231)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Ayrshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunlop
- National Grid reference
- NS 4274 5209
- Latitude
- 55.73667
- Longitude
- -4.50621
- Altitude
- 209 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 2, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.46 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1895); Other (1952); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 7613
- National record
- record NS 45 SW 7; monument 43058
- Wikidata
- Q31103852
Sources
References
- Smith, J (1895) Prehistoric Man in Ayrshire. Elliot Stock: London