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Barr Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0316
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0316 (316)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Urr
- National Grid reference
- NX 8156 6937
- Latitude
- 55.00485
- Longitude
- -3.85332
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North); In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1953); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1969)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4517
- National record
- record NX 86 NW 10; monument 64944
- Wikidata
- Q31058869
Sources