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Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0306
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0306 (306)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rerrick
- National Grid reference
- NX 8189 4835
- Latitude
- 54.81606
- Longitude
- -3.83959
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1961); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1969)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4433
- National record
- record NX 84 NW 2; monument 64860
- Wikidata
- Q31058687
Sources
References
- Nisbet, H C (1961) '"Adam's Chair", Balcary, Auchencairn', Disc Exc Scot 1961, 34