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<< Text Pages >> Duncarnock Hillfort - Hillfort in Scotland in Renfrewshire

Submitted by AstroGeologist on Wednesday, 08 May 2019  Page Views: 2121

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Duncarnock Hillfort Alternative Name: Dun Carnock, Craig Of Carnock
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 2.627 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Renfrewshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Barrhead  Nearest Village: Neilston
Map Ref: NS50105590
Latitude: 55.773130N  Longitude: 4.391256W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Hillfort in Renfrewshire

Duncarnock Hillfort is located on top of a steep sided Volcanic Plug, which rises abruptly from the shore of Glanderston Dam in the Renfrewshire Hills.

Situated 200m above sea level, it has an irregular polygon shape to it, with an approx NE~SW alignment. The summit consists of a broad ridge at the North end, where a rocky knoll rises rather suddenly to a height of 204m. With an overall size of 1.6ha, the Fort dimensions are 190m x 100m, while the summit of the knoll is about 33m x 25m.

The Fort comprised a wall, originally between 3m~4m thick, with a partial inner defence built around the knoll, along with wide terrace fronts the entire length of the Southern Rampart. Traces of rig-and-furrow cultivation are also visible, while roughly in the centre of the Fort there are the footings of a small rectangular building, with a second overlying the Fort wall on the SE. Most of these walls are now a Heather-grown spread of rubble.

In 1958 "F.Newall" found a piece of pre-Roman pottery and a fragment of worked Shale near the NE corner of the Fort.

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NS5055 : Fire damage, Duncarnoch by Richard Webb
by Richard Webb
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NS5055 : Wall, Duncarnock by Richard Webb
by Richard Webb
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NS5055 : Trig pillar and fort, Duncarnock by David Brown
by David Brown
©2012(licence)
NS5055 : Outcrops on Duncarnock by Alan O'Dowd
by Alan O'Dowd
©2020(licence)
NS5055 : Duncarnock trig point by Mark Nightingale
by Mark Nightingale
©2009(licence)

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