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Ingleston
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0278
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0278 (278)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kelton
- National Grid reference
- NX 7721 5767
- Latitude
- 54.89865
- Longitude
- -3.91634
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1849); Other (1890); Other (1894); Other (1911); Other (1968)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4066
- National record
- record NX 75 NE 5; monument 64479
- Wikidata
- Q31058149
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