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Castle Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0254
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0254 (254)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Twynholm
- National Grid reference
- NX 6627 5208
- Latitude
- 54.84564
- Longitude
- -4.08423
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1850); Other (1892); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1965); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1061
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3656
- National record
- record NX 65 SE 24; monument 64061
- Wikidata
- Q31058308
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