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Isle Head
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0226
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0226 (226)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whithorn
- National Grid reference
- NX 4803 3605
- Latitude
- 54.69650
- Longitude
- -4.35965
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.2 ha, 1.6 ha
- Footprint
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1849); Other (1895); Other (1911); Other (1939); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (1997); Geophysical Survey (2009); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1985
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2736
- National record
- record NX 43 NE 8; monument 63098
- Wikidata
- Q31057786
Sources
References
- Armit, I, Friel, B, Gaffney, C and McCarthy, M 2009 A survey of Isle Head Fort, Isle of Whithorn, January 2009: Second Interim Report. University of Bradford (Available at RCAHMS MS6900)
- McCarthy, M (2008) 'Isle Head Fort, Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway (Whithorn parish), survey', Discovery Excav Scot, New ser, 9, 55
- 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
- Toolis, R (2003) 'A study of the promontory forts of the north Solway coast'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway natur Hist Antiq Soc 3 Ser, 77, 37-78.