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Carghidown Castle
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC0229
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0229 (229)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whithorn
- National Grid reference
- NX 4356 3507
- Latitude
- 54.68633
- Longitude
- -4.42842
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- postholes and roundhouses
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1849); Other (1894); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (1996); Geophysical Survey (2003); Excavation (2004)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2770
- National record
- record NX 43 NW 8; monument 63132
- Wikidata
- Q31057084
Sources
References
- M'Kerlie, P H (1870) History of the lands and their owners in Galloway, , vol.1 Edinburgh
- Toolis, R (2003) 'Carghidown (Whithorn parish), promontory fort', Discovery Excav Scot 4, 51
- Toolis, R (2004) 'Carghidown (Whithorn parish), promontory fort', Discovery Excav Scot 5, 40
- Toolis, R (2007) 'Intermittent occupation and forced abandonment: excavation of an Iron Age promontory fort at Carghidown, Dumfries and Galloway'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 137, 265-318