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Kirkland Fort
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0256
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0256 (256)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkcudbright
- National Grid reference
- NX 6922 5072
- Latitude
- 54.83420
- Longitude
- -4.03770
- Altitude
- 60 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
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
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1890); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1894); Other (1911); Other (1955); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1080
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3665
- National record
- record NX 65 SE 32; monument 64071
- Wikidata
- Q31058327
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