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Castlehill Point, West Barcloy
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC0310
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0310 (310)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Colvend And Southwick
- National Grid reference
- NX 8541 5242
- Latitude
- 54.85344
- Longitude
- -3.78645
- 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 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Other (1851); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1911); Other (1938); Other (1951); Other (1969); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1062
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4464
- National record
- record NX 85 SE 1; monument 64891
- Wikidata
- Q31059692
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
- 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.
- Toolis, R (2003) 'A study of the promontory forts of the north Solway coast'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway natur Hist Antiq Soc 3 Ser, 77, 37-78