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Cults Loch
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC0343
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0343 (343)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Inch
- National Grid reference
- NX 1193 6050
- Latitude
- 54.90374
- Longitude
- -4.93496
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 5, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Investigations
- Other (1978); Other (1998); Excavation (2009); Geophysical Survey (2009); Excavation (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7500
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG1752
- National record
- record NX 16 SW 18; monument 61697
- Wikidata
- Q31059989
Sources
References
- Cavers and Crone, G and A (2009) 'Cults Landscape Project - Cults Loch, Castle Kennedy, Dumfries and Galloway (Inch parish), excavation', Disc Exc Scot, New Ser 10 (2009), 56
- Cavers, G (2010) 'Cults Loch fort, Dumfries and Galloway (Inch parish), excavation', Disc Exc Scot, New Ser 11 (2010), 53
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.