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Crofts Mote
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0290
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0290 (290)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crossmichael
- National Grid reference
- NX 7432 6591
- Latitude
- 54.97193
- Longitude
- -3.96499
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.3 ha, 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
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 (1928); Other (1951); Other (1968); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1065
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4171
- National record
- record NX 76 NW 1; monument 64588
- Wikidata
- Q31059337
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.