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Camp Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0785
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0785 (785)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Girthon
- National Grid reference
- NX 6188 5425
- Latitude
- 54.86393
- Longitude
- -4.15359
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Other (1850); Other (1892); Other (1911); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG3735
- National record
- record NX 65 SW 13; monument 64143
- Wikidata
- Q31059595
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.