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Archwood Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0869
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0869 (869)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Johnstone
- National Grid reference
- NY 0911 8838
- Latitude
- 55.18136
- Longitude
- -3.42881
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (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 (1975); Other (1978); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4091
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG12155
- National record
- record NY 08 NE 21; monument 66231
- Wikidata
- Q31060110
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1997) Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh