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Dunman
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0177
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0177 (177)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkmaiden
- National Grid reference
- NX 0978 3350
- Latitude
- 54.66061
- Longitude
- -4.95073
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and coastal grassland
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1848); Other (1911); Other (1938); Other (1972); Other (1984); 1st Identified Written Reference (1880-1889); Earthwork Survey (1880-1889)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1975
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG603
- National record
- record NX 03 SE 2; monument 60438
- Wikidata
- Q31056518
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963b) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London
- Page(s): 161 Held at RCAHMS E.2.FEA
- 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 55-6, No.144)
- RCAHMS (1950-9) Marginal Land Survey (unpublished typescripts).
- Wilson, G (1885) 'Description of ancient forts, etc., in Wigtownshire'. Archaeol Hist Collect Ayrshire Galloway 5 (1885), 62-73