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Glennap Fort
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0275
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0275 (275)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rerrick
- National Grid reference
- NX 7272 4510
- Latitude
- 54.78463
- Longitude
- -3.98078
- Altitude
- 85 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Earthwork Survey (1890); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1950); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1073
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3999
- National record
- record NX 74 NW 14; monument 64410
- Wikidata
- Q31058888
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
- 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