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Davie's Kirk
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0887
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0887 (887)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkmichael (Nithsdale)
- National Grid reference
- NY 0474 9190
- Latitude
- 55.21215
- Longitude
- -3.49866
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Other Forms (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); Other (1959); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3299
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6799
- National record
- record NY 09 SW 5; monument 66419
- Wikidata
- Q31060290
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1955) 'Iron Age and early medieval monuments in Galloway and Dumfriesshire'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 ser, 33 (1954-5), 58-65
- Truckell, A E (1959) 'Maggiemant Knowe', Disc Exc Scot 1959, 23