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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Maxwelstone CampCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.7 km away from the location you searched for.
County: South Ayrshire Type: Hillfort
Map Ref: NX25959895
Latitude: 55.253917N Longitude: 4.740017W
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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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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Hillfort in South Ayrshire
An oval fort, possibly unfinished, consisting of two earthen ramparts, which are presumably contemporary although not concentric, with external quarry ditches. The interior measures 87 by 62m and there are entrances on the west and ENE respectively.
The defences can be traced round the summit of the hill except on the steep NW side, where the abrupt and well defined terminals of the ditches suggest that they have not continued round this side.
The ramparts are still well defined on the east where they measure 7.3m in maximum width, 1m externally and 0.3m internally in maximum height. Elsewhere they exist only as crest lines. Both ramparts and ditches have an unfinished look, the ditch being perfunctory in some places as though it were simply a marking-out trench. There is a staggered causewayed entrance on the east with the break in the inner rampart 7m wide and the outer 5m.
Text updated and adapted from Canmore.
Canmore ID 62566
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