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The Belt
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0337
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0337 (337)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkmahoe
- National Grid reference
- NX 9323 8582
- Latitude
- 55.15519
- Longitude
- -3.67718
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1855); Other (1913); Other (1937); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 644
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6269
- National record
- record NX 98 NW 8; monument 65811
- Wikidata
- Q31059979
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