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Craig Wood
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0845
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0845 (845)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Caerlaverock
- National Grid reference
- NY 0142 6843
- Latitude
- 55.00067
- Longitude
- -3.54268
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1804); Other (1856); Other (1890); Other (1912); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6529
- National record
- record NY 06 NW 1; monument 66075
- Wikidata
- Q31059667
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1891) 'A general view of the forts, camps, and motes of Dumfriesshire, with a detailed description of those in Upper Annandale, and an introduction to the study of Scottish motes', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 25 (1890-91), 198-256
- RCAHMS (1920) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Seventh report with Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Dumfries, Edinburgh