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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Walls Hill Fort Alternative Name: Walls Hill Oppidum, Walls Hill, North Castle Walls
Country: Scotland County: Renfrewshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Johnstone  Nearest Village: Howwood
Map Ref: NS4117058800
Latitude: 55.796311N  Longitude: 4.535156W
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

Walls Hill Fort is a large double period Iron Age Hill Fort that occupies a steep-sided Lava Plateau in the Renfrewshire Hills.

The summit of the Fort ranges between 220m~230m above sea level, and has steep rocky slopes and cliffs between 6m~9m in height, protecting the NW, NE & SE. To the SW it forms a grassy slope down to the surrounding land. It is Pear shaped and measures approximately 460m x 200m. At 7.5ha, Walls Hillfort is one of the largest pre-historic enclosures in Scotland, exceeded in area by only 3 other forts, leading some Archaeologists to think it was probably an Oppidium.

The Southern half of the Fort is comparatively level while parts of the Northern half is more uneven. Remains of a Rampart can be traced along the North parts of the East and West sides of the plateau, which was once a continuous Rampart that originally bordered the whole of the plateau. This wall is about 5m in thickness and about 50cm in height. In 1837 "Andros Crawfurd" noted that at the Southern end of the Fort the wall stood at 1.5m in height internally.

Excavated by "F.Newall" in 1956, he discovered post-holes of two successive round-houses, where there had also been later medieval occupation. In 1970, a struck flake of Green Flint was recovered from a runnel just outside the main entrance to the Fort by "A.S. Newall"

"F.Newall" states that it was probable that the initial occupation of this site ended with the arrival of the Romans. However, his excavations showed that between the fourth and eleventh, centuries, the site was re-occupied. A final occupation took place in the 14th century, when a farm house was constructed on top of Walls Hill.

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NS4158 : Walls Hill fort from the air by Thomas Nugent
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NS4158 : Walls Hill by Richard Webb
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NS4158 : Walls Loch and Walls Hill from the air by Thomas Nugent
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NS4159 : Walls Loch and Walls Hill from the air by Thomas Nugent
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by Thomas Nugent
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