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White Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0882
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0882 (882)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tinwald
- National Grid reference
- NY 0385 8333
- Latitude
- 55.13500
- Longitude
- -3.50973
- Altitude
- 240 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.56 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Other (1939); Other (1963)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6721
- National record
- record NY 08 SW 6; monument 66340
- Wikidata
- Q31059892
Sources
References
- 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