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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Queen's Park Earthworks Alternative Name: Camphill earthworks, Queen's Park Iron Age EarthworksCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.134 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Glasgow
Map Ref: NS57766211
Latitude: 55.831197N Longitude: 4.272499W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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There is the remains of an outer ditch and inner ramparts, approximately 119m diameter according to the Trove archaeological record from 1967. The link below has records of previous archeological excavation. There are some large boulders within but they are noted as possibly being more recent.
Despite the urban setting, and probably because it's off the paved paths, the site itself is very tranquil, surrounded by trees, and if you can ignore the remains of barbecues and illicit drinking then you can forget you're in the city at all. Hence me putting ambience of 5.
It's often referred to as iron age earthworks including on Google maps and on the sign nearby, although as far as I have read the date of it is uncertain.
More info from Trove, the new Canmore, which is where I got the grid ref
It's on Google Maps
And there is a marker on the base map for this website indicating a historic place
[There is no option for "Glasgow" as county or any that make sense - historical counties don't really make sense in Scottish cities. So I would request Glasgow be added as a county option - as, ideally would other local authority areas]
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