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Dove Cave Head
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0179
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0179 (179)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stoneykirk
- National Grid reference
- NX 0598 4731
- Latitude
- 54.78310
- Longitude
- -5.01876
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1955); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Other (1984); Other (1990)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4779
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG610
- National record
- record NX 04 NE 13; monument 60445
- Wikidata
- Q31056550
Sources