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Tor of Craigoch
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0189
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0189 (189)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Leswalt
- National Grid reference
- NX 0085 6464
- Latitude
- 54.93660
- Longitude
- -5.11037
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 4, SW 4, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
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 (1782); Other (1847); Earthwork Survey (1893); Other (1911); Other (1938); Other (1953); Earthwork Survey (1968); Other (1968); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2001
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG989
- National record
- record NX 06 SW 1; monument 60830
- Wikidata
- Q31056758
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.