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Hayknowes
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC0889
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0889 (889)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Annan
- National Grid reference
- NY 1726 6558
- Latitude
- 54.97768
- Longitude
- -3.29460
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Footprint
- 0.69 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- animal bones
- Investigations
- Other (1979); Geophysical Survey (1995); Excavation (1995); Excavation (1996); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12092
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6848
- National record
- record NY 16 NE 24; monument 66473
- Wikidata
- Q31060353
Sources
References
- Gregory, R A (2001) 'Excavations at Hayknowes Farm, Annan, Dumfriesshire', Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, Ser 3, 75 (2001), 29-46