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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Elphinstone Fort Alternative Name: Elphinstone Wood Fort, Elphinstone Hillfort
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.028 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Renfrewshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Port Glasgow  Nearest Village: Kilmacolm
Map Ref: NS37506995
Latitude: 55.895169N  Longitude: 4.600309W
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.
 3 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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Elphinstone Fort is a medium sized Iron Age HillFort, situated on a raised Volcanic Plateau that slopes down onto Lawfield Dam.

Situated in the middle of Elphinstone Woods, the Fort has a rough NNW-SSE alignment, measuring approximately 60m x 25m. It is located 150m above sea level and is protected on 3 sides by steep rocky crags (The Fort is at the top of a Crag & Tail formation, formed about 10,000 year's ago at the end of the Younger Dryas)

Defensively, the Fort had 3m thick stone walls, now mostly obliterated but still visible in some places, the wall followed the natural contour of the rocky crags, with the entrance at the gentler SSE end.

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Elphinstone Fort by AstroGeologist on Thursday, 16 May 2019
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Yes Andy they are all ok thanks, but Larkfield Moor should be Inverclyde too.
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    Re: Elphinstone Fort by TheCaptain on Thursday, 16 May 2019
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    Thanks. I have changed most of these now. Looking up the Scottish Counties, and Inverclyde seems to not exist as a county, but a district. Is this one of these late 20th Century new counties which hasa reverted to what it was ?
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      Elphinstone Fort by AstroGeologist on Thursday, 16 May 2019
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      Renfrewshire used to be the whole bit of land from Paisley(ish) along the Southern bank of the Clyde, down to the coast above Ayrshire, then the council changed it to Renfrewhire, Renfrewhire East & Renfrewhire West to make it easier to administrate.

      As you mentioned, Inverclyde is more of a district in Renfrewshire, usually considered to be the settlements on the Firth of Clyde, from Port Glasgow down to Wemyss Bay.
      Everyone from Kilmacolm still calls it Renfrewshire, and lets the council call it whatever they want.
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        Re: Elphinstone Fort by Andy B on Friday, 17 May 2019
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        Hello, are the other listings for Inverclyde OK county wise? I guess so as most of them are from yourself. Thanks for the corrections

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        High Castlehill Fort Hillfort in Inverclyde at NS3505972281
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        Craigmarloch Fort Hillfort in Inverclyde at NS34437185
        Posted by AstroGeologist on Monday, 06 May 2019

        Granny Kempock Standing Stone Standing Stone (Menhir) in Inverclyde at NS2407877856
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