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Barr's Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0875
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0875 (875)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tinwald
- National Grid reference
- NY 0152 8344
- Latitude
- 55.13553
- Longitude
- -3.54630
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 0.43 ha
- Footprint
- 0.99 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1804); Other (1855); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1937); Other (1963)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 643
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG12178
- National record
- record NY 08 SW 2; monument 66328
- Wikidata
- Q31060170
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London
- 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