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Moyle Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0309
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0309 (309)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Colvend And Southwick
- National Grid reference
- NX 8488 5751
- Latitude
- 54.89904
- Longitude
- -3.79674
- Altitude
- 140 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 4.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1851); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1894); Other (1911); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1970); Other (2002)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2347
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4459
- National record
- record NX 85 NW 5; monument 64886
- Wikidata
- Q31059619
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1893) 'The motes, forts, and doons in the east and west divisions of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27, 92-182
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London
- Feachem, R W (1966) 'The hill-forts of northern Britain', in Rivet, A L F The iron age in northern Britain Edinburgh
- 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.