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Crammag Head
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0176
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0176 (176)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkmaiden
- National Grid reference
- NX 0891 3404
- Latitude
- 54.66513
- Longitude
- -4.96455
- 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 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and vitrification
- 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 evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1848); Other (1877); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1938); Other (1972); Other (1984); Other (2009); Earthwork Survey (1880-1889)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1964
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG602
- National record
- record NX 03 SE 1; monument 60437
- Wikidata
- Q31056498
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 174)
- Hindmarch, E (2009a) 'Crammag Head, Dumfries and Galloway (Kirkmaiden parish), watching brief', Discovery Excav Scot, New Series, vol.10, (Cathedral Communications Limited, Wiltshire, England).
- M'Ilwraith, W (1877) The visitors' guide to Wigtownshire: with notes, historical antiquarian and descriptive, upon the burghs, towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, ruins and other places of interest in the county, Dumfries
- MacKie, E W (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands, BAR British series 444(II), 444(1), 2 V Oxford
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale), (Wigtownshire), No.86, p 35; available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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 (54-5, No.143, fig.40)
- RCAHMS (1950-9) Marginal Land Survey (unpublished typescript held at RCAHMS)
- Todd, W (1854) 'Statistical, historical and miscellaneous memoranda connected with the parish of Kirkmaiden', copy of unpublished manuscript in Stranraer public library (p 13, 44-5)
- Wilson, G (1885) 'Description of ancient forts, etc., in Wigtownshire'. Archaeol Hist Collect Ayrshire Galloway 5 (1885), 62-73