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Burrow Head
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0230
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0230 (230)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whithorn
- National Grid reference
- NX 4553 3415
- Latitude
- 54.67867
- Longitude
- -4.39740
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.06 ha, 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
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); Earthwork Survey (1911); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1973); Other (1995); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1956
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2772
- National record
- record NX 43 SE 1; monument 63134
- Wikidata
- Q31057812
Sources
References
- Feachem (1963) Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 159).
- 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.