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Meikle Wood Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0295
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0295 (295)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kelton
- National Grid reference
- NX 7452 6210
- Latitude
- 54.93777
- Longitude
- -3.96006
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1984); Other (1993); Other (1999); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 8367
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4615
- National record
- record NX 76 SW 22; monument 64690
- Wikidata
- Q31059528
Sources
References
- Alexander, D (2009c) 'Meikle Hill Wood, Dumfries and Galloway (Kelton parish), watching brief', Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 10, 58.