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Dunskey Golf Course

Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0123

Location

Atlas number
SC0123 (123)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Dumfries & Galloway
Historic county
Wigtownshire
Parish, community, or townland
Portpatrick
National Grid reference
NW 9944 5444
Latitude
54.84451
Longitude
-5.12524
Altitude
40 m

Form and condition

Type
promontory fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial univallate and partial bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
2
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 1, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.05 ha
Footprint
0.1 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
scrub or bracken and coastal grassland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Earthwork Survey (1984); Other (1991)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
5128
HER
Dumfries & Galloway MDG511
National record
record NW 95 SE 6; monument 60341
Wikidata
Q31056194

Sources