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Dunguile Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0279
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0279 (279)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kelton
- National Grid reference
- NX 7734 5716
- Latitude
- 54.89410
- Longitude
- -3.91410
- Altitude
- 195 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 3, SW 3, NW 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 8 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 2 ha, 8 ha
- Footprint
- 8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Other (1849); Earthwork Survey (1891); Other (1911); Earthwork Survey (1954); Other (1968)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4069
- National record
- record NX 75 NE 7; monument 64482
- Wikidata
- Q31058168
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1891) 'The motes, forts and doons of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright (part 1)', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 25, 352-96
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 129)
- Feachem, R (1965) The North Britons: the prehistory of a Border people, London (p 170)
- 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