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Latitude: 55.5612 / 55°33'40"N
Longitude: -4.494 / 4°29'38"W
OS Eastings: 242806
OS Northings: 632547
OS Grid: NS428325
Mapcode National: GBR 3G.QRGW
Mapcode Global: WH3QH.YH52
Entry Name: Craigie,fort 250m N of
Scheduled Date: 15 November 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4920
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Craigie
County: South Ayrshire
Electoral Ward: Kyle
Traditional County: Ayrshire
The monument is a fort of the Iron Age. It lies on a low hill immediately N of the hamlet of Craigie. The interior measures 70.5m by 62m and its rampart has been reduced to little more than a band of rubble spread to a thickness of 3.8m and standing to a height of 0.8m. There is a well-defined entrance on the S. An area 85m in diameter centred on the enclosure is proposed for scheduling.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is well preserved, by the standard of monuments in the area, and is one of the small number of forts surviving on the SW coast. In the undisturbed interior, deposits of considerable importance to the theme of Iron Age settlement and economy may survive. The monument is of particular interest because of the presence of an Iron Age dun 175m to the N. The relationship between these two Iron Age monuments will be of national importance to the theme of the development of settlement and defence in later prehistory.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NS 43 SW 6.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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