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Dunskirloch
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0133
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0133 (133)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkcolm
- National Grid reference
- NW 9823 7273
- Latitude
- 55.00813
- Longitude
- -5.15689
- 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
- 0.26 ha
- Footprint
- 0.28 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
- Earthwork Survey (1884); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1892); Other (1911); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1984); Other (1990)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4884
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4588
- National record
- record NW 97 SE 1; monument 60406
- Wikidata
- Q31056424
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.