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Springfield Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0345
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0345 (345)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunscore
- National Grid reference
- NX 8944 8431
- Latitude
- 55.14079
- Longitude
- -3.73604
- Altitude
- 196 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1835); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1855); Other (1913); Other (1937); Other (1973); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 662
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG5560
- National record
- record NX 88 SE 1; monument 65116
- Wikidata
- Q31059997
Sources
References
- Coles, J M (1964) 'Scottish Middle Bronze Age metalwork'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 97, 82-156
- Coles, J M (1960) 'Scottish Late Bronze Age Metalwork: Typology, Distribution and Chronology'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 93, 16-134
- Corrie, J M (1926) 'Notice of (1) certain bronze implements from Dumfriesshire; and (2) a symbol stone from East Lomond Hill, Fife, recently presented to the National Museum', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 60, 27-34
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy, 15v Edinburgh
- 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