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Spouty Dennans
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0270
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0270 (270)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rerrick
- National Grid reference
- NX 7634 4563
- Latitude
- 54.79029
- Longitude
- -3.92475
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1850); Earthwork Survey (1891); Other (1911); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3992
- National record
- record NX 74 NE 8; monument 64403
- Wikidata
- Q31057959
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