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Conchieton Doon
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0258
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0258 (258)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Borgue
- National Grid reference
- NX 6348 5307
- Latitude
- 54.85377
- Longitude
- -4.12812
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.37 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.1 ha, 1.37 ha
- Footprint
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1850); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1911); Other (1972); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7670
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3749
- National record
- record NX 65 SW 3; monument 64157
- Wikidata
- Q31058352
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