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Mare Rock
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0129
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0129 (129)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Leswalt
- National Grid reference
- NW 9599 6510
- Latitude
- 54.93876
- Longitude
- -5.18643
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1880); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1893); Earthwork Survey (1984); Other (1990)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4811
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG532
- National record
- record NW 96 NE 26; monument 60364
- Wikidata
- Q31056306
Sources