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Manxman's Rock
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0248
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0248 (248)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Borgue
- National Grid reference
- NX 6128 4498
- Latitude
- 54.78052
- Longitude
- -4.15848
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- 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 (1895); Earthwork Survey (1954); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3586
- National record
- record NX 64 SW 3; monument 63991
- Wikidata
- Q31057517
Sources