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Camp Hill, Trohoughton
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC0332
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0332 (332)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dumfries
- National Grid reference
- NX 9963 7269
- Latitude
- 55.03858
- Longitude
- -3.57214
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- 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
- 0.26 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800 and undated
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1899); Other (1913); Excavation (1960); Excavation (1962); Excavation (1963); Other (1964)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6179
- National record
- record NX 97 SE 6; monument 65725
- Wikidata
- Q31059230
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
- Simpson and Scott-Elliot, D D A and J (1964) 'Excavations at Camp Hill, Trohoughton, Dumfries', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 Ser, 41, 125-34.