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Camp Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0314
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0314 (314)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Urr
- National Grid reference
- NX 8070 6506
- Latitude
- 54.96587
- Longitude
- -3.86490
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.62 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1891); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1894); Other (1969)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4533
- National record
- record NX 86 NW 3; monument 64960
- Wikidata
- Q31058831
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1892) 'The Motes, Forts, and Doons of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbrightshire. (Part II)' Proc Soc Antiq Scot 26, 117-70
- 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