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East Galdenoch
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0205
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0205 (205)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stoneykirk
- National Grid reference
- NX 1023 5532
- Latitude
- 54.85662
- Longitude
- -4.95801
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.45 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1978); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7411
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG1290
- National record
- record NX 15 NW 20; monument 61229
- Wikidata
- Q31057199
Sources