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Knock Fell
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0689
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0689 (689)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Old Luce
- National Grid reference
- NX 2550 5577
- Latitude
- 54.86621
- Longitude
- -4.72071
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Footprint
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1848); Other (1894); 1st Identified Written Reference (1899); Other (1911); Other (1938); Other (1953); Other (1976); Other (2013); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1988
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG2017
- National record
- record NX 25 NE 9; monument 62146
- Wikidata
- Q31060026
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 160)
- RCAHMS (1912) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Fourth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in Galloway, 1, county of Wigtown, Edinburgh
- Wilson, G (1899) 'List of the antiquities of Glenluce, Wigtownshire, with descriptive notes', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 33, 170-85