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Doon Wood
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0245
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0245 (245)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Twynholm
- National Grid reference
- NX 6574 4883
- Latitude
- 54.81631
- Longitude
- -4.09097
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Other (1850); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1951); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1067
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3490
- National record
- record NX 64 NE 14; monument 63892
- Wikidata
- Q31058047
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
- 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