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Edgarton Mote
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0261
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0261 (261)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Balmaghie
- National Grid reference
- NX 6733 6307
- Latitude
- 54.94461
- Longitude
- -4.07280
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and vitrification
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1849); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1911); Other (1962); Other (1968)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1119
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3776
- National record
- record NX 66 SE 5; monument 64185
- Wikidata
- Q31058417
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
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 130)
- Feachem, R (1965) The North Britons: the prehistory of a Border people, London
- 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