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Doon Castle, Ardwell Point
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0787
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0787 (787)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Wigtownshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stoneykirk
- National Grid reference
- NX 0670 4468
- Latitude
- 54.75980
- Longitude
- -5.00580
- Altitude
- 10 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 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1848); Other (1911); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1967); Other (1972); Other (1980); Other (1984); Other (1995); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1970
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG651
- National record
- record NX 40 SE 1; monument 60487
- Wikidata
- Q31060043
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 174)
- MacKie, E W (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands, BAR British Ser, Oxford
- 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.
- 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