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Corncokle Plantation
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0871
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0871 (871)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lochmaben
- National Grid reference
- NY 0900 8609
- Latitude
- 55.16076
- Longitude
- -3.42986
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Footprint
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Earthwork Survey (1971); Other (1973); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG12157
- National record
- record NY 08 NE 5; monument 66238
- Wikidata
- Q31059839
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 116)
- Jobey, G (1971) 'Early settlements in eastern Dumfriesshire', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 Ser, 48 (1971), 78-105
- 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