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Hetland
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0861
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0861 (861)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dalton
- National Grid reference
- NY 0882 7240
- Latitude
- 55.03780
- Longitude
- -3.42827
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1913); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6608
- National record
- record NY 07 SE 10; monument 66163
- Wikidata
- Q31059792
Sources
References
- 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