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Buckiebank Plantation

Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0947

Location

Atlas number
SC0947 (947)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Dumfries & Galloway
Historic county
Dumfriesshire
Parish, community, or townland
Hoddom
National Grid reference
NY 1598 7380
Latitude
55.05159
Longitude
-3.31670
Altitude
30 m

Form and condition

Type
promontory fort
Condition
Extant and Cropmark
Morphology
partial bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
2
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
Number of ditches
2
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
0
Enclosed area
0.45 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches

Landscape

Topographic position
inland promontory
Aspect
level
Land use
woodland and arable

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Other (1984); Other (2007)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
12091
HER
Dumfries & Galloway MDG7064
National record
record NY 17 SE 41; monument 66708
Wikidata
Q31060471

Sources