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Castle Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0277
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0277 (277)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Buittle
- National Grid reference
- NX 7925 5891
- Latitude
- 54.91028
- Longitude
- -3.88507
- Altitude
- 135 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and 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); Other (1849); Earthwork Survey (1891); Other (1911); Other (1951); Other (1977); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1054
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4063
- National record
- record NX 75 NE 2; monument 64476
- Wikidata
- Q31058990
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
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 129)
- 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