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Goldielea Wood
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0334
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0334 (334)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Troqueer
- National Grid reference
- NX 9302 7385
- Latitude
- 55.04762
- Longitude
- -3.67597
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.36 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1971); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1973); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6184
- National record
- record NX 97 SW 10; monument 65730
- Wikidata
- Q31059263
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
- Williams, J and Anderson, G (1971) 'Troqueer, Goldielea/Tregallon, Iron Age sites', Disc Exc Scot 1971, 26