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Portobello
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0128
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0128 (128)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkcolm
- National Grid reference
- NW 9609 6641
- Latitude
- 54.95056
- Longitude
- -5.18580
- Altitude
- 15 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.15 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 coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1951); Earthwork Survey (1955); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Other (1984); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4988
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG545
- National record
- record NW 96 NE 9; monument 60377
- Wikidata
- Q31056283
Sources
References
- 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