Home / Scotland / Dumfries & Galloway / Maggimaut's Knowe
Maggimaut's Knowe
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0888
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0888 (888)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkmichael (Nithsdale)
- National Grid reference
- NY 0454 9140
- Latitude
- 55.20762
- Longitude
- -3.50163
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (1974); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3488
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6800
- National record
- record NY 09 SW 6; monument 66420
- Wikidata
- Q31060333
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) 'Whitestones and Gledenholm Moors', Disc Exc Scot 1959, 22-3