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Mcculloch's Castle
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC0346
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0346 (346)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkbean
- National Grid reference
- NX 9962 5769
- Latitude
- 54.90383
- Longitude
- -3.56704
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1851); Earthwork Survey (1892); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1938); Other (1951); Excavation (1962); Excavation (1963); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1083
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG5829
- National record
- record NX 95 NE 4; monument 65369
- Wikidata
- Q31060007
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1893) 'The motes, forts, and doons in the east and west divisions of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27, 92-182
- RCAHMS (1914) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Fifth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in Galloway, II, county of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Edinburgh.
- Scott-Elliot, J (1963) 'McCulloch's Castle, Arbigland', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 3 Ser, 41
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