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Carse Mote
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0253
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0253 (253)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkcudbright
- National Grid reference
- NX 6955 5336
- Latitude
- 54.85800
- Longitude
- -4.03376
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Other (1850); Earthwork Survey (1890); Other (1893); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1965); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1058
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3642
- National record
- record NX 65 SE 11; monument 64047
- Wikidata
- Q31058283
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1891) 'The motes, forts and doons of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright (part 1)', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 25, 352-96
- 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