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Doon Hill, Balig
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0274
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0274 (274)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rerrick
- National Grid reference
- NX 7191 4690
- Latitude
- 54.80095
- Longitude
- -3.99418
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Footprint
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Other (1850); Other (1890); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1971); Excavation (1981); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1066
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3998
- National record
- record NX 74 NW 13; monument 64409
- Wikidata
- Q31058809
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
- Crone, A (1981) 'Doonhill (Rerrick p), hillfort', Disc Exc Scot 1981, 8-9
- 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