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North Balfern
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0237
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0237 (237)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkinner
- National Grid reference
- NX 4372 5095
- Latitude
- 54.82896
- Longitude
- -4.43448
- Altitude
- 47 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1782); Other (1848); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1953); Other (1964); Other (1970)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1994
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3045
- National record
- record NX 45 SW 4; monument 63414
- Wikidata
- Q31057924
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