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Castlehill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0333
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0333 (333)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Troqueer
- National Grid reference
- NX 9279 7496
- Latitude
- 55.05754
- Longitude
- -3.67998
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Footprint
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1850); Earthwork Survey (1892); Other (1912); Other (1951); Other (1964)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6194
- National record
- record NX 97 SW 2; monument 65740
- Wikidata
- Q31059248
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1893) 'The motes, forts, and doons in the east and west divisions of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27, 92-182
- RCAHMS (1914) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Fifth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in Galloway, II, county of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Edinburgh.