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Muldaddie
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0175
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0175 (175)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkmaiden
- National Grid reference
- NX 0914 3977
- Latitude
- 54.71664
- Longitude
- -4.96474
- Altitude
- 45 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
- 0.03 ha
- Footprint
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- 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
- Other (1984); Other (1990)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4776
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG594
- National record
- record NX 03 NE 2; monument 60429
- Wikidata
- Q31056453
Sources
References
- Wilson, G (1885) 'Description of ancient forts, etc., in Wigtownshire'. Archaeol Hist Collect Ayrshire Galloway 5 (1885), 62-73