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Sour Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0341
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0341 (341)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Twynholm
- National Grid reference
- NX 6720 5299
- Latitude
- 54.85412
- Longitude
- -4.07012
- Altitude
- 65 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1989)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG9146
- National record
- record NX 65 SE 100; monument 71657
- Wikidata
- Q31059446
Sources
References
- Page, J (1989) 'Sour Hill (Twynholm parish)', Discy Exc Scot 1989, 13