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Castle Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0304
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0304 (304)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glencairn
- National Grid reference
- NX 7282 9400
- Latitude
- 55.22382
- Longitude
- -4.00097
- Altitude
- 320 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.79 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1912); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4415
- National record
- record NX 79 SW 1; monument 64842
- Wikidata
- Q31058644
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963b) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 117)
- 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