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Suie Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0286
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0286 (286)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rerrick
- National Grid reference
- NX 7658 5081
- Latitude
- 54.83688
- Longitude
- -3.92322
- Altitude
- 245 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.19 ha, 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Other (1849); Earthwork Survey (1891); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1952); Other (1962); Other (1971); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1096
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4111
- National record
- record NX 75 SE 2; monument 64525
- Wikidata
- Q31059100
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1892) 'The Motes, Forts, and Doons of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbrightshire. (Part II)' Proc Soc Antiq Scot 26, 117-70
- 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