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Barend Mote
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0266
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0266 (266)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rerrick
- National Grid reference
- NX 7518 4885
- Latitude
- 54.81893
- Longitude
- -3.94416
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1890); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1895); Other (1911); Other (1971); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3981
- National record
- record NX 74 NE 2; monument 64392
- Wikidata
- Q31057887
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1891) The motes, forts, and doons of The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Proc Soc Antiq Scotland 25,352-96
- 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