Home / Scotland / Dumfries & Galloway / Castlehill
Castlehill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC0934
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0934 (934)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dryfesdale
- National Grid reference
- NY 1225 7894
- Latitude
- 55.09712
- Longitude
- -3.37666
- Altitude
- 75 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1726); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1857); Other (1912); Other (1966); Other (1973); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11910
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7009
- National record
- record NY 17 NW 2; monument 66653
- Wikidata
- Q31060386
Sources
References
- Gordon, A (1726) Itinerarium Septentrionale: or A Journey Thro most of the Counties of Scotland And Those in the North of England. London
- 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