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The Dunnan, Portankill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0197
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0197 (197)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkmaiden
- National Grid reference
- NX 1417 3229
- Latitude
- 54.65139
- Longitude
- -4.88200
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.01 ha
- Footprint
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1885); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1893); Other (1911); Other (1953); Other (1972); Other (1984); Other (1990); Earthwork Survey (1801-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4759
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG1170
- National record
- record NX 13 SW 8; monument 61096
- Wikidata
- Q31056883
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
- Trotter, R, and Maxwell, H E (1886) 'Notice of the excavation of St Medan's cave and chapel, Kirkmaiden, Wigtownshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 20, 76-90.
- Wilson, G (1885) 'Description of ancient forts, etc., in Wigtownshire'. Archaeol Hist Collect Ayrshire Galloway 5 (1885), 62-73