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Park Hill, Hillhead
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0884
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0884 (884)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkpatrick-Juxta
- National Grid reference
- NY 0613 9749
- Latitude
- 55.26263
- Longitude
- -3.47869
- Altitude
- 260 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); In-turned (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Other (1972); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (1991); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10544
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6736
- National record
- record NY 09 NE 2; monument 66355
- Wikidata
- Q31060240
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
- RCAHMS (1997) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh