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Barnkirk Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0222
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0222 (222)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penninghame
- National Grid reference
- NX 3943 6640
- Latitude
- 54.96635
- Longitude
- -4.50982
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.88 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.4 ha, 0.88 ha
- Footprint
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1955); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1966)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2594
- National record
- record NX 36 NE 5; monument 62930
- Wikidata
- Q31056939
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1955) 'Iron Age and early medieval monuments in Galloway and Dumfriesshire'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 ser, 33 (1954-5), 58-65