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White Isle
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0302
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0302 (302)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunscore
- National Grid reference
- NX 7586 8419
- Latitude
- 55.13649
- Longitude
- -3.94890
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Excavation (1906); Other (1912); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1978); Earthwork Survey (1991)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4355
- National record
- record NX 78 SE 1; monument 64780
- Wikidata
- Q31058604
Sources
References
- CFA (1991l) 'Craigenvey, Loch Urr (Dunscore parish): cairnfields, White Isle earthwork', Disc Exc Scot 1991, 15
- Corrie, J (1906) 'The Loch Urr crannog', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 2 Ser, 17, 244-5
- RCAHMS (1920) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Seventh report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Dumfries, Edinburgh
- Truckell, A E (1972) 'Finds and sites, 1971-72', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 Ser, 49, 127