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Castleyards
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0267
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0267 (267)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rerrick
- National Grid reference
- NX 7547 4555
- Latitude
- 54.78936
- Longitude
- -3.93823
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1850); Other (1891); Other (1911); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3989
- National record
- record NX 74 NE 5; monument 64400
- Wikidata
- Q31057905
Sources
References
- 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
- Toolis, R (2003) 'A study of the promontory forts of the north Solway coast'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway natur Hist Antiq Soc 3 Ser, 77, 37-78