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Boreland Wood
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0242
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0242 (242)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Borgue
- National Grid reference
- NX 5858 5088
- Latitude
- 54.83275
- Longitude
- -4.20331
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (2002)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG21222
- National record
- record NX 55 SE 42; monument 239582
- Wikidata
- Q31057364
Sources
References
- Devereux, D and Collin, D (2002) 'Boreland Wood, Dumfries and Galloway (Borgue parish), ?prehistoric hilltop enclosure', Discovery Excav Scot 3, 27