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Carminnows
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0264
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0264 (264)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Carsphairn
- National Grid reference
- NX 6064 9072
- Latitude
- 55.19108
- Longitude
- -4.19069
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- animal bones and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1850); Earthwork Survey (1891); Other (1894); Other (1911); Excavation (1935); Other (1951); Other (1978); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3969
- National record
- record NX 69 SW 8; monument 64379
- Wikidata
- Q31057858
Sources
References
- Childe, V G (1936b) '(1) Carminnow Fort; (2) Supplementary excavations at the vitrified fort of Finavon, Angus; and (3) some Bronze Age vessels from Angus', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 70, Page(s): 341-56
- Coles, F R 1892 'The Motes, Forts, and Doons of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbrightshire. (Part II)' Proc Soc Antiq Scot 26, 117-70
- 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