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Giant's Dike
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0262
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0262 (262)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tongland
- National Grid reference
- NX 6873 6065
- Latitude
- 54.92325
- Longitude
- -4.04985
- Altitude
- 155 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1849); Other (1892); Other (1911); Other (1951); Earthwork Survey (1953); Other (1954); Other (1968); Other (1990); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3780
- National record
- record NX 66 SE 9; monument 64189
- Wikidata
- Q31057826
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)
- 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