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Kirkland Moat
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0328
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0328 (328)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dumfries
- National Grid reference
- NX 9839 7501
- Latitude
- 55.05917
- Longitude
- -3.59237
- Altitude
- 65 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1793); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1960)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6026
- National record
- record NX 97 NE 31; monument 65562
- Wikidata
- Q31059134
Sources
References
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy, 15v Edinburgh
- Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99