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Auchenhay
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0259
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0259 (259)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Borgue
- National Grid reference
- NX 6436 5270
- Latitude
- 54.85075
- Longitude
- -4.11422
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3737
- National record
- record NX 65 SW 15; monument 64145
- Wikidata
- Q31057765
Sources
References
- Jones, B (1979) 'Aerial reconnaissance, Solway survey; Dumfries and Galloway 1977 to 1979', Discovery Excav Scot 1979, 3
- Truckell, A E (1984) 'Some lowland native sites in Western Dumfriesshire and Galloway' in Miket, R and Burgess, C Between and beyond the Walls: essays on the prehistory and history of North Britain in honour of George Jobey Edinburgh