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Carrickcamrie, West Cairngaan
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0198
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0198 (198)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkmaiden
- National Grid reference
- NX 1298 3109
- Latitude
- 54.64018
- Longitude
- -4.89965
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Footprint
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1894); Other (1911); Other (1938); Other (1951); Other (1972); Other (1984); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1959
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG1120
- National record
- record NX 13 SW 12; monument 61046
- Wikidata
- Q31056917
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