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Castle Muir
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0269
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0269 (269)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rerrick
- National Grid reference
- NX 7976 4715
- Latitude
- 54.80478
- Longitude
- -3.87222
- 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
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1829); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1849); Other (1891); Other (1911); Other (1937); Earthwork Survey (1953); Other (1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1063
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3991
- National record
- record NX 74 NE 7; monument 64402
- Wikidata
- Q31058742
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
- Skene, J (1829) A series of sketches of the existing localities alluded to in the Waverley Novels. Edinburgh; London