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Trusty's Hill, Anwoth
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC0241
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0241 (241)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Anwoth
- National Grid reference
- NX 5889 5601
- Latitude
- 54.87890
- Longitude
- -4.20100
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Footprint
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, timber-laced wall, and vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1850); Other (1856); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1951); Excavation (1960); Other (1970); Other (1990); Earthwork Survey (2012); Excavation (2012); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1100
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3247
- National record
- record NX 55 NE 2; monument 63641
- Wikidata
- Q31057995
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 (1977) Guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 131)
- Galloway Picts Project http://gallowaypicts.com/wordpress/
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- 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
- Stuart, J (1856) Sculptured stones of Scotland, vol.1. Aberdeen
- Thomas, C (1960) 'Excavations at Trust's Hill, Anwoth, Kirkcudbright, 1960'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 ser, 38 (1959-60), 58-70
- Toolis, R and Bowles, C (2013) 'Excavations at Trusty's Hill, 2012'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 ser, 87 (2012-13), 27-50
- Toolis, R & Bowles, C (2017) The lost Dark Age kingdom of Rheged. The discovery of a royal stronghold at Trusty's Hill, Galloway. Oxford: Oxbow.