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Tynron Doon
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC0326
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0326 (326)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tynron
- National Grid reference
- NX 8197 9392
- Latitude
- 55.22544
- Longitude
- -3.85718
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800, after AD 800, and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1795); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1969); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1977); Excavation (1964-1967)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 663
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG5759
- National record
- record NX 89 SW 1; monument 65300
- Wikidata
- Q31059937
Sources
References
- De Paor, L (1963) 'Some vine scrolls and other patterns in embossed metal from Dumfriesshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 94, 184-95 fig. 1, pl. xii
- Maxwell-Irving, A M T (2000) The Border towers of Scotland: their history and architecture: the West March, [S.l.]
- 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
- Webster and Backhouse, L E and J (1991) The making of England: Anglo-Saxon art and culture, AD 600-900, British Museum, London
- Williams, J (1971) 'Tynron Doon, Dumfriesshire: a history of the site with notes on the finds 1924-67', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 Ser, 48, 106-20 plan