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Fort Point, Larbrax Moor
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0132
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0132 (132)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Leswalt
- National Grid reference
- NW 9639 6157
- Latitude
- 54.90725
- Longitude
- -5.17770
- Altitude
- 7 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 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Footprint
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (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 Map Depiction (1848); Other (1911); Other (1968); Other (1984); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1982
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG557
- National record
- record NW 96 SE 2; monument 60389
- Wikidata
- Q31056400
Sources
References
- 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. (p 71, No.180)