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Doon Hill, Capenoch Croft
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0221
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0221 (221)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkinner
- National Grid reference
- NX 3803 5153
- Latitude
- 54.83236
- Longitude
- -4.52330
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1848); 1st Identified Written Reference (1885); Other (1911); Other (1939); Other (1955); Other (1970)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1969
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2552
- National record
- record NX 35 SE 3; monument 62888
- Wikidata
- Q31057632
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