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Mullach
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0336
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0336 (336)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkmahoe
- National Grid reference
- NX 9291 8698
- Latitude
- 55.16553
- Longitude
- -3.68264
- Altitude
- 245 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1 ha, 2 ha
- Footprint
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and vitrification
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1855); Other (1913); Other (1937); Other (1976); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 657
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6267
- National record
- record NX 98 NW 6; monument 65809
- Wikidata
- Q31059971
Sources
References
- MacKie, E W (1975) Scotland: an archaeological guide: from the earliest times to the twelfth century, London
- 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