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Cruise Back Fell
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0207
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0207 (207)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- New Luce
- National Grid reference
- NX 1794 6219
- Latitude
- 54.92114
- Longitude
- -4.84241
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Footprint
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1847); 1st Identified Written Reference (1885); Other (1893); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1924); Other (1953); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1986); Other (1995); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1965
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG1699
- National record
- record NX 16 SE 6; monument 61644
- Wikidata
- Q31057263
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963b) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 160)
- 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
- Wilson, G (1899) 'List of the antiquities of Glenluce, Wigtownshire, with descriptive notes', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 33