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Grennan Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0324
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0324 (324)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penpont
- National Grid reference
- NX 8254 9507
- Latitude
- 55.23584
- Longitude
- -3.84870
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1913); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1956); Other (1977); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6285
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG5699
- National record
- record NX 89 NW 7; monument 65239
- Wikidata
- Q31059918
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