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Grennan, Grennan Point
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0180
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0180 (180)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stoneykirk
- National Grid reference
- NX 0760 4377
- Latitude
- 54.75195
- Longitude
- -4.99126
- 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
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 Written Reference (1885); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1894); Other (1911); Other (1938); Other (1955); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1984
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG674
- National record
- record NX 04 SE 2; monument 60510
- Wikidata
- Q31056568
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
- Wilson, G (1885) 'Description of ancient forts, etc., in Wigtownshire'. Archaeol Hist Collect Ayrshire Galloway 5 (1885), 62-73