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Oakbank
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0945
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0945 (945)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkpatrick-Juxta
- National Grid reference
- NY 1040 9894
- Latitude
- 55.27646
- Longitude
- -3.41195
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1975); Excavation (2003)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7268
- National record
- record NY 19 NW 23; monument 66913
- Wikidata
- Q31060080
Sources
References
- Matthews, A, & Rees, T (2003) 'Nether Murthat, Beattock (Kirkpatrick-Juxta parish), Evaluation'. Disc Exc Scot 4 (2003), 49
- Rathmell Archaeology (2003) Nether Murthat, Beattock: Archaeological Evaluation; Data Straucture Report 27th November 2003.