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Kemp's Graves, Glenhead of Aldouran
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0190
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0190 (190)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Leswalt
- National Grid reference
- NX 0078 6352
- Latitude
- 54.92652
- Longitude
- -5.11068
- Altitude
- 80 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
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Footprint
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1847); Earthwork Survey (1893); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1938); Other (1953); Other (1968); Other (1984); Earthwork Survey (2013); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1983
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG1004
- National record
- record NX 06 SW 3; monument 60845
- Wikidata
- Q31056781
Sources