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Doon Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0249
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0249 (249)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Twynholm
- National Grid reference
- NX 6875 5660
- Latitude
- 54.88688
- Longitude
- -4.04769
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1990)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG8432
- National record
- record NX 65 NE 26; monument 69056
- Wikidata
- Q31057536
Sources