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Doon of May
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0210
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0210 (210)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mochrum
- National Grid reference
- NX 2950 5151
- Latitude
- 54.82935
- Longitude
- -4.65594
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and vitrification
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1848); Other (1911); Other (1951); Other (1963); Other (1976); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1972
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2073
- National record
- record NX 25 SE 13; monument 62203
- Wikidata
- Q31057317
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 159)
- 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