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Woodycastle
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0874
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0874 (874)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lochmaben
- National Grid reference
- NY 0732 8368
- Latitude
- 55.13880
- Longitude
- -3.45536
- Altitude
- 73 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.33 ha, 1.5 ha
- Footprint
- 1.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Earthwork Survey (1793); Other (1857); Earthwork Survey (1890); Other (1912); Other (1924); Other (1966); Geophysical Survey (1995); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 665
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG12162
- National record
- record NY 08 SE 2; monument 66277
- Wikidata
- Q31060119
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1891) 'A general view of the forts, camps, and motes of Dumfriesshire, with a detailed description of those in Upper Annandale, and an introduction to the study of Scottish motes', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 25 (1890-91,) 198-256
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 116)
- OSA (1791-9) The statistical account of Scotland, drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes (Sinclair, J, ed) Edinburgh (vol. 9 (1793), 426)
- 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. HMSO: Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1997a) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh