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Torrs Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0293
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0293 (293)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kelton
- National Grid reference
- NX 7768 6153
- Latitude
- 54.93343
- Longitude
- -3.91060
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- 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); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1894); Other (1963); Other (1985); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4210
- National record
- record NX 76 SE 17; monument 64628
- Wikidata
- Q31058462
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