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Torkirra
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0317
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0317 (317)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkgunzeon
- National Grid reference
- NX 8700 6447
- Latitude
- 54.96204
- Longitude
- -3.76643
- Altitude
- 105 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 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.29 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1851); Earthwork Survey (1893); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1098
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4548
- National record
- record NX 86 SE 3; monument 64975
- Wikidata
- Q31059857
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.