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Borness Batteries
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0247
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0247 (247)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Borgue
- National Grid reference
- NX 6198 4466
- Latitude
- 54.77784
- Longitude
- -4.14745
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); Other (1850); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1951); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1053
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3585
- National record
- record NX 64 SW 2; monument 63990
- Wikidata
- Q31058097
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
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- 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
- Toolis, R (2003) 'A study of the promontory forts of the north Solway coast'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway natur Hist Antiq Soc 3 Ser, 77, 37-78