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Court Hill, High Skeog
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0227
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0227 (227)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whithorn
- National Grid reference
- NX 4543 3978
- Latitude
- 54.72919
- Longitude
- -4.40194
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1911); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1973)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2703
- National record
- record NX 43 NE 11; monument 63065
- Wikidata
- Q31057049
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
- 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