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Mare Rock
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0131
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0131 (131)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Leswalt
- National Grid reference
- NW 9607 6507
- Latitude
- 54.93852
- Longitude
- -5.18516
- Altitude
- 30 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Footprint
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1984); Other (1990)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4811
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG535
- National record
- record NW 96 NE 29; monument 60367
- Wikidata
- Q31056379
Sources