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Sundaywell
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0321
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0321 (321)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunscore
- National Grid reference
- NX 8111 8473
- Latitude
- 55.14263
- Longitude
- -3.86682
- Altitude
- 140 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1855); Other (1912); Other (1978); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5556
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG5586
- National record
- record NX 88 SW 3; monument 65134
- Wikidata
- Q31059906
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1920) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Seventh report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Dumfries, Edinburgh