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Dounan Nose, Dally
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0124
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0124 (124)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkcolm
- National Grid reference
- NW 9673 6874
- Latitude
- 54.97172
- Longitude
- -5.17748
- Altitude
- 7 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Footprint
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1884); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1892); Other (1911); Other (1938); Other (1968); Other (1976); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1973
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG514
- National record
- record NW 96 NE 1; monument 60345
- Wikidata
- Q31056220
Sources
References
- Wilson, G (1885) 'Description of ancient forts, etc., in Wigtownshire'. Archaeol Hist Collect Ayrshire Galloway 5 (1885), 62-73
- 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 W (1955) 'Iron Age and early medieval monuments in Galloway and Dumfriesshire'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 ser, 33 (1954-5), 58-65