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Camphill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0294
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0294 (294)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Buittle
- National Grid reference
- NX 7989 6267
- Latitude
- 54.94421
- Longitude
- -3.87667
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1849); Other (1891); Other (1894); Other (1911); Other (1963); Other (1985); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4211
- National record
- record NX 76 SE 18; monument 64629
- Wikidata
- Q31058474
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.