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Range Castle
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0849
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0849 (849)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dalton
- National Grid reference
- NY 0864 7639
- Latitude
- 55.07356
- Longitude
- -3.43239
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.07 ha, 0.16 ha, 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 0.95 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Hollow Way (West); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1937); Other (1966); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 658
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG12130
- National record
- record NY 07 NE 8; monument 66132
- Wikidata
- Q31060061
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 117)
- 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. HMSO: Edinburgh