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Crofts
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0297
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0297 (297)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkpatrick Durham
- National Grid reference
- NX 7906 7485
- Latitude
- 55.05340
- Longitude
- -3.89477
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1893); Other (1911); Other (1973); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4308
- National record
- record NX 77 SE 4; monument 64730
- Wikidata
- Q31058519
Sources
References
- 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.