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Round Dounan
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC0204
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0204 (204)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Old Luce
- National Grid reference
- NX 1483 5795
- Latitude
- 54.88194
- Longitude
- -4.88815
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Other
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1847); Other (1894); Other (1911); Earthwork Survey (1951); Other (1968); Other (1986); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1995
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG1308
- National record
- record NX 15 NW 4; monument 61250
- Wikidata
- Q31057107
Sources
References
- McCarthy, M 2002 'Rheged: and early historic kingdom near the Solway'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 132, 357-81
- 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
- Reid, R C (1952) 'Dunragit', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3rd Ser, 29, 155-6.