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Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0239
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0239 (239)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Minnigaff
- National Grid reference
- NX 4282 6610
- Latitude
- 54.96470
- Longitude
- -4.45675
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1849); Other (1892); Other (1894); Other (1911); Other (1966)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3146
- National record
- record NX 46 NW 9; monument 63516
- Wikidata
- Q31057306
Sources
References
- Coles F 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).
- Feachem, R W (1955) 'Iron Age and early medieval monuments in Galloway and Dumfriesshire'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 ser, 33 (1954-5), 58-65
- Morton, A S (1938) 'Kirroughtree', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 3 ser, 20, 178
- 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