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Mote of Mark
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC0312
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0312 (312)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Colvend And Southwick
- National Grid reference
- NX 8450 5403
- Latitude
- 54.86769
- Longitude
- -3.80127
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, timber-laced wall, and vitrification
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); 1st Identified Written Reference (1790); Other (1796); Other (1851); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1911); Excavation (1913); Other (1937); Other (1951); Other (1969); Excavation (1973); Excavation (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1127
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4484
- National record
- record NX 85 SW 2; monument 64911
- Wikidata
- Q31059713
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
- Curle, A O (1914) 'Report on the excavation in September 1913, of a vitrified fort at Rockcliffe, Dalbeattie, known as the Mote of Mark', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 48, 125-68
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 129)
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- Laing, L & Longley, D 2006 The Mote of Mark: A Dark Age Hillfort in South-West Scotland. Oxbow Books, Oxford
- 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
- Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99