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Kerbers
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0280
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0280 (280)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kelton
- National Grid reference
- NX 7774 5701
- Latitude
- 54.89285
- Longitude
- -3.90780
- Altitude
- 155 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.26 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
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
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1953); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4071
- National record
- record NX 75 NE 9; monument 64484
- Wikidata
- Q31058184
Sources