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High Fort, North Milton
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0273
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0273 (273)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkcudbright
- National Grid reference
- NX 7059 4817
- Latitude
- 54.81166
- Longitude
- -4.01525
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1890); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1894); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1079
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4049
- National record
- record NX 74 NW 9; monument 64462
- Wikidata
- Q31058793
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1891) The motes, forts, and doons of The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright (Part I). Proc Soc Antiq Scotland 25, 352-96
- Feachem, R W (1956a) 'Iron Age and early medieval monuments in Galloway and Dumfriesshire', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 ser, 33
- 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