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Virginhall Plantation, Gallows Dike
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0322
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0322 (322)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penpont
- National Grid reference
- NX 8642 9555
- Latitude
- 55.24106
- Longitude
- -3.78791
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Footprint
- 0.63 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1912); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG5610
- National record
- record NX 89 NE 20; monument 65154
- Wikidata
- Q31059017
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