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Laggan Camp
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0216
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0216 (216)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glasserton
- National Grid reference
- NX 3976 3725
- Latitude
- 54.70470
- Longitude
- -4.48851
- Altitude
- 74 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1782); Other (1849); Other (1911); Other (1951); Other (1973); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1989
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2340
- National record
- record NX 33 NE 3; monument 62668
- Wikidata
- Q31057469
Sources