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Burnhill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0863
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0863 (863)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mouswald
- National Grid reference
- NY 0578 7312
- Latitude
- 55.04365
- Longitude
- -3.47609
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1793); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1912); Other (1967); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6616
- National record
- record NY 07 SE 2; monument 66173
- Wikidata
- Q31059808
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