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Barn Heugh
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0240
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0240 (240)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Borgue
- National Grid reference
- NX 5993 4741
- Latitude
- 54.80196
- Longitude
- -4.18063
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Footprint
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1850); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1912); Other (1937); Other (1951); Other (1966)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1052
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3230
- National record
- record NX 54 NE 4; monument 63624
- Wikidata
- Q31057939
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 (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 130)
- 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