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Caspin
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0193
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0193 (193)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkcolm
- National Grid reference
- NX 0052 7325
- Latitude
- 55.01372
- Longitude
- -5.12150
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Footprint
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1885); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1892); Other (1911); Other (1953); Other (1968); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1936
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG1037
- National record
- record NX 07 SW 2; monument 60923
- Wikidata
- Q31056836
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London
- 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