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Kemp's Walk, Meikle Larbrax
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0122
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0122 (122)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Leswalt
- National Grid reference
- NW 9754 5983
- Latitude
- 54.89211
- Longitude
- -5.15857
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.37 ha
- Footprint
- 0.57 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Earthwork Survey (1848); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1939); Other (1953); Other (1968); Other (1985); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1992
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG482
- National record
- record NW 95 NE 1; monument 60312
- Wikidata
- Q31056173
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1912) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Fourth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in Galloway, 1, county of Wigtown, Edinburgh
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London, Page(s): 161