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Mote Hill, Glenluce
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0203
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0203 (203)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Old Luce
- National Grid reference
- NX 1936 5733
- Latitude
- 54.87803
- Longitude
- -4.81724
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 0.57 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1955); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Other (1986); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG1224
- National record
- record NX 15 NE 12; monument 61154
- Wikidata
- Q31056599
Sources