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Mull of Galloway
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0201
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0201 (201)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkmaiden
- National Grid reference
- NX 1438 3073
- Latitude
- 54.63751
- Longitude
- -4.87774
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 54 ha
- Footprint
- 61.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1839); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1848); Other (1894); Other (1911); Other (1939); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1984); Excavation (2000); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2021
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG1125; MDG1124
- National record
- record NX 13 SW 17; monument 61051
- Wikidata
- Q31057011
Sources
References
- Maxwell, H E (1885) 'Ancient weapons, instruments, utensils and ornaments of Wigtonshire. With list of the principal stone implements recorded from Wigtonshire', Archaeol Hist Collect Ayrshire Galloway, vol.5
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- 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
- Strachan, R (2000a) 'Mull of Galloway linear earthworks, Dumfries and Galloway (Kirkmaiden parish), survey; evaluative excavation', Discovery Excav Scot 1, 21
- Williams, J (1970a) 'Neolithic axes in Dumfries and Galloway', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, ser 3, 47
- Wilson, G (1878) 'Notes on the ancient stone implements of Wigtonshire', Archaeol Hist Collect Ayr Wigton, 1
- Wilson, G (1885) 'Description of ancient forts, etc., in Wigtownshire'. Archaeol Hist Collect Ayrshire Galloway 5 (1885), 62-73