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The Dounan
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0188
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0188 (188)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stoneykirk
- National Grid reference
- NX 0190 5230
- Latitude
- 54.82628
- Longitude
- -5.08552
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- 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
- 0.05 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1970); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG776
- National record
- record NX 05 SW 12; monument 60613
- Wikidata
- Q31056337
Sources