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Cairn Pat
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0186
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0186 (186)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Portpatrick
- National Grid reference
- NX 0442 5632
- Latitude
- 54.86335
- Longitude
- -5.04908
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.15 ha
- Footprint
- 2.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1847); Earthwork Survey (1893); Other (1911); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1968); Other (1984); Other (1995); Excavation (2001); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1958
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG13140
- National record
- record NX 05 NW 1; monument 60559
- Wikidata
- Q31056703
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 160)
- Fulford, H (2001) 'Cairnpat, Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway (Portpatrick parish), watching brief', Discovery Excav Scot 2 (2001), 28.
- 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.