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Temple Wood
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0335
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0335 (335)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunscore
- National Grid reference
- NX 9184 8522
- Latitude
- 55.14949
- Longitude
- -3.69875
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1855); Other (1913); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6266
- National record
- record NX 98 NW 5; monument 65808
- Wikidata
- Q31059289
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 117)
- 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