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The Doon, Twynholm
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0251
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0251 (251)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Twynholm
- National Grid reference
- NX 6603 5438
- Latitude
- 54.86623
- Longitude
- -4.08903
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.26 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1850); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1911); Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3662
- National record
- record NX 65 SE 3; monument 64068
- Wikidata
- Q31057584
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