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Castle Knowe
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0885
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0885 (885)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Johnstone
- National Grid reference
- NY 0994 9701
- Latitude
- 55.25903
- Longitude
- -3.41860
- Altitude
- 105 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 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Footprint
- 0.49 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1993); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG9353
- National record
- record NY 09 NE 55; monument 81182
- Wikidata
- Q31059928
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1997) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Robins, M P (1993) 'Annandale and Eskdale District (Moffat parish, Kirkpatrick Juxta parish): M74 survey', Disc Exc Scot 1993, 17