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Kirkland Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0344
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0344 (344)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkinner
- National Grid reference
- NX 4192 5171
- Latitude
- 54.83522
- Longitude
- -4.46282
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.69 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1992)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG9438
- National record
- record NX 45 SW 40; monument 82588
- Wikidata
- Q31059514
Sources