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Barsalloch Point
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0219
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0219 (219)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mochrum
- National Grid reference
- NX 3472 4121
- Latitude
- 54.73863
- Longitude
- -4.56889
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Footprint
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1849); Other (1911); Other (1921); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1977); Other (2002); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90030
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2488
- National record
- record NX 34 SW 1; monument 62816
- Wikidata
- Q31057555
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963b) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 159-60).
- 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