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Green Island, Milton Loch
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0319
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0319 (319)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Urr
- National Grid reference
- NX 8385 7164
- Latitude
- 55.02571
- Longitude
- -3.81852
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1851); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1911); Other (1937); Other (1951); Other (1952); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1074
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG5482
- National record
- record NX 87 SW 3; monument 65045
- Wikidata
- Q31059873
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
- Piggott, C M (1953) 'Milton Loch crannog I: a native house of the 2nd century AD in Kirkcudbrightshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 87, 134-52
- 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.