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Tinwald
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0799
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0799 (799)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dumfries
- National Grid reference
- NY 0005 7972
- Latitude
- 55.10187
- Longitude
- -3.56798
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.2 ha, 0.5 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1961)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6589
- National record
- record NX 97 SW 3; monument 66141
- Wikidata
- Q31059647
Sources