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Hell's Hole
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0257
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0257 (257)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Twynholm
- National Grid reference
- NX 6836 5417
- Latitude
- 54.86504
- Longitude
- -4.05260
- Altitude
- 7 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and valley bottom
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1949); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3695
- National record
- record NX 65 SE 59; monument 64101
- Wikidata
- Q31057726
Sources