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Mochrum Fell
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0300
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0300 (300)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Parton
- National Grid reference
- NX 7208 7449
- Latitude
- 55.04842
- Longitude
- -4.00380
- Altitude
- 245 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1953); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1973); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4316
- National record
- record NX 77 SW 3; monument 64738
- Wikidata
- Q31058562
Sources