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Netherthird
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0281
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0281 (281)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kelton
- National Grid reference
- NX 7108 5548
- Latitude
- 54.87743
- Longitude
- -4.01089
- Altitude
- 75 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
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Other (1849); Earthwork Survey (1890); Other (1911); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4100
- National record
- record NX 75 NW 6; monument 64514
- Wikidata
- Q31058200
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
- 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
- Tabraham, C J (1984) 'Norman settlement in Galloway: recent fieldwork in the Stewartry', in Breeze, D J (ed) Studies in Scottish antiquity presented to Stewart Cruden. John Donald: Edinburgh