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Moat Hill, Margley
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0296
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0296 (296)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkpatrick Durham
- National Grid reference
- NX 7702 7326
- Latitude
- 55.03862
- Longitude
- -3.92599
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- 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 (1850); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1951); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1086
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4289
- National record
- record NX 77 SE 1; monument 64711
- Wikidata
- Q31059548
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1893) 'The motes, forts, and doons in the east and west divisions of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27, 92-182
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 131)
- 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.