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East Kirkcarswell
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0265
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0265 (265)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rerrick
- National Grid reference
- NX 7522 4972
- Latitude
- 54.82675
- Longitude
- -3.94392
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Footprint
- 0.44 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1849); Earthwork Survey (1890); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1952); Other (1961); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1071
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3971
- National record
- record NX 74 NE 1; monument 64381
- Wikidata
- Q31058501
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1891) 'The motes, forts and doons of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright (part 1)', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 25, 352-96
- Feachem, R (196b) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 130)
- Feachem, R (1965) The North Britons: the prehistory of a Border people, London (p 178)
- 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