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Ward Law
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0846
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0846 (846)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Caerlaverock
- National Grid reference
- NY 0245 6669
- Latitude
- 54.98526
- Longitude
- -3.52588
- Altitude
- 90 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
- 0.27 ha
- Footprint
- 0.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6553
- National record
- record NY 06 NW 5; monument 66099
- Wikidata
- Q31059681
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p115)
- Hewison, J K (1912) Dumfriesshire, Cambridge County Geographies Cambridge
- 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