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Bennan of Garvilland
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0212
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0212 (212)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- New Luce
- National Grid reference
- NX 2154 6275
- Latitude
- 54.92753
- Longitude
- -4.78667
- Altitude
- 180 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 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South west); Oblique (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1885); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1893); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1953); Other (1976); Other (1995); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1955
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2294
- National record
- record NX 26 SW 3; monument 62426
- Wikidata
- Q31057412
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) 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