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Kirklauchline
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0187
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0187 (187)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stoneykirk
- National Grid reference
- NX 0356 5058
- Latitude
- 54.81150
- Longitude
- -5.05855
- Altitude
- 75 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 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- 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 Map Depiction (1847); 1st Identified Written Reference (1885); Earthwork Survey (1893); Other (1911); Other (1940); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1970); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1987
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG804
- National record
- record NX 05 SW 6; monument 60642
- Wikidata
- Q31056729
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 161).
- 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.