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Waterside
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0315
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0315 (315)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Urr
- National Grid reference
- NX 8090 6595
- Latitude
- 54.97391
- Longitude
- -3.86227
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Footprint
- 0.47 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1892); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1894); Other (1911); Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1963)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4534
- National record
- record NX 86 NW 4; monument 64961
- Wikidata
- Q31058849
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
- 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.