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Kenmuir Graves, Island Buoy
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0178
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0178 (178)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stoneykirk
- National Grid reference
- NX 0661 4691
- Latitude
- 54.77975
- Longitude
- -5.00871
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Footprint
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North 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); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1938); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1986
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG645
- National record
- record NX 04 NE 5; monument 60481
- Wikidata
- Q31056532
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 150-1, No.430).