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Dunmuir Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0292
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0292 (292)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crossmichael
- National Grid reference
- NX 7646 6303
- Latitude
- 54.94665
- Longitude
- -3.93020
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1891); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4616
- National record
- record NX 76 SE 4; monument 64653
- Wikidata
- Q31058436
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.