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Castlecreavie
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0272
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0272 (272)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rerrick
- National Grid reference
- NX 7254 4894
- Latitude
- 54.81907
- Longitude
- -3.98526
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1849); Other (1890); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1952); Other (1971); Other (1992)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1059
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4016
- National record
- record NX 74 NW 4; monument 64438
- Wikidata
- Q31058757
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1891) The motes, forts, and doons of The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Proc Soc Antiq Scotland 25, 352-96
- Naddair, K (1992) 'Castlecreavie dun 2A (Kirkcudbright parish)', Disc Exc Scot 1992, 26
- 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
- van Hoek, M (1994) 'Castlecreavie dun (Kirkcudbright parish)', Disc Exc Scot 1994, 5