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Castle Feather
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0232
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0232 (232)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whithorn
- National Grid reference
- NX 4482 3423
- Latitude
- 54.67918
- Longitude
- -4.40845
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1849); Other (1895); Other (1911); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2775
- National record
- record NX 43 SW 1; monument 63137
- Wikidata
- Q31057155
Sources
References
- 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.