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Court Knowe, High Auchenlarie
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0243
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0243 (243)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Anwoth
- National Grid reference
- NX 5383 5308
- Latitude
- 54.85114
- Longitude
- -4.27831
- Altitude
- 114 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1848); Other (1972); Other (1977); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3329
- National record
- record NX 55 SW 31; monument 63729
- Wikidata
- Q31057387
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/