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Borron Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0327
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0327 (327)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkbean
- National Grid reference
- NX 9935 5770
- Latitude
- 54.90393
- Longitude
- -3.57115
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG5817
- National record
- record NX 95 NE 27; monument 65358
- Wikidata
- Q31059114
Sources
References
- Jones, B (1979) 'Aerial reconnaissance, Solway survey; Dumfries and Galloway 1977 to 1979', Disc Exc Scot 1979, 3