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Burrow Head
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0231
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0231 (231)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whithorn
- National Grid reference
- NX 4559 3412
- Latitude
- 54.67842
- Longitude
- -4.39645
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 0.07 ha
- Footprint
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- counterscarp bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1849); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2774
- National record
- record NX 43 SE 3; monument 63136
- Wikidata
- Q31057134
Sources
References
- Feachem (1963) Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 159).
- 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.