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Dungarry
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0287
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0287 (287)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rerrick
- National Grid reference
- NX 7575 5360
- Latitude
- 54.86173
- Longitude
- -3.93734
- Altitude
- 225 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Other (1849); Earthwork Survey (1890); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1938); Other (1952); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1070
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4112
- National record
- record NX 75 SE 3; monument 64526
- Wikidata
- Q31059181
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1891) The motes, forts, and doons of The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Proc Soc Antiq Scotland 25, 352-96
- Feachem, R (1963b) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 130)
- 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