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Mull Glen, West Tarbet
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0200
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0200 (200)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkmaiden
- National Grid reference
- NX 1380 3106
- Latitude
- 54.64021
- Longitude
- -4.88694
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1885); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1894); Earthwork Survey (1906); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1939); Other (1951); Other (1972); Other (1984); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1993
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG1123
- National record
- record NX 13 SW 15; monument 61049
- Wikidata
- Q31056991
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
- Wilson, G (1885) 'Description of ancient forts, etc., in Wigtownshire'. Archaeol Hist Collect Ayrshire Galloway 5 (1885), 62-73