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Garliachen, Laigh Sinniness
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0211
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0211 (211)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Old Luce
- National Grid reference
- NX 2157 5219
- Latitude
- 54.83269
- Longitude
- -4.77966
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.05 ha, 0.14 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1894); 1st Identified Written Reference (1899); Other (1911); Other (1940); Other (1953); Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1996
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2107
- National record
- record NX 25 SW 10; monument 62239
- Wikidata
- Q31057342
Sources
References
- 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
- Toolis, R (2003) 'A study of the promontory forts of the north Solway coast'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 3 Ser, 77, 37-78
- Wilson, G (1899) 'List of the antiquities of Glenluce, Wigtownshire, with descriptive notes', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 33