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Doon of Carsluith
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0236
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0236 (236)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkmabreck
- National Grid reference
- NX 4979 5444
- Latitude
- 54.86215
- Longitude
- -4.34189
- Altitude
- 176 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Footprint
- 1.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1914); Earthwork Survey (1952); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3009
- National record
- record NX 45 SE 3; monument 63378
- Wikidata
- Q31057254
Sources
References
- Coles, Frederick R (1893) 'The Motes, Forts, and Doons in the East and West Divisions of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.' Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27, 92-182.
- RCAHMS (1914) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Fifth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in Galloway, II, county of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Edinburgh.