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Corra Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0283
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0283 (283)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kelton
- National Grid reference
- NX 7443 5549
- Latitude
- 54.87845
- Longitude
- -3.95866
- 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
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 MDG4075
- National record
- record NX 75 NW 12; monument 64489
- Wikidata
- Q31058230
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