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Moss Castle
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0852
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0852 (852)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dalton
- National Grid reference
- NY 0884 7603
- Latitude
- 55.07036
- Longitude
- -3.42915
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
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 Written Reference (1955); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1966); Other (1973); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12114
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG12131
- National record
- record NY 07 NE 9; monument 66133
- Wikidata
- Q31060095
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1955) 'Iron Age and early medieval monuments in Galloway and Dumfriesshire'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 ser, 33 (1954-5), 58-65