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Drummore Castle
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0244
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0244 (244)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkcudbright
- National Grid reference
- NX 6879 4570
- Latitude
- 54.78900
- Longitude
- -4.04212
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Other (1850); Earthwork Survey (1890); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1937); Other (1952); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1069
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3520
- National record
- record NX 64 NE 5; monument 63925
- Wikidata
- Q31058022
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1891) The motes, forts, and doons of The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Proc Soc Antiq Scotland 25352-96
- 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