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Camp Hill, Tinlaw
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0858
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0858 (858)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Torthorwald
- National Grid reference
- NY 0417 7876
- Latitude
- 55.09401
- Longitude
- -3.50317
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1792); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1804); Other (1856); Other (1912); Other (1966)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6588
- National record
- record NY 07 NW 1; monument 66140
- Wikidata
- Q31059755
Sources
References
- Statistical Account (1791-9) The statistical account of Scotland, drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes. Sinclair, J (ed). Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1920) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Seventh Report with Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Dumfries. HMSO: Edinburgh