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Castlehill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC0937
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0937 (937)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dryfesdale
- National Grid reference
- NY 1228 7864
- Latitude
- 55.09443
- Longitude
- -3.37609
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- 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
- 11912
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7018
- National record
- record NY 17 NW 3; monument 66662
- Wikidata
- Q31060402
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