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Dalton
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0948
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0948 (948)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dalton
- National Grid reference
- NY 1175 7396
- Latitude
- 55.05231
- Longitude
- -3.38281
- Altitude
- 61 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 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1913); Other (1967); Other (1973); Other (1983); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11595
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7086
- National record
- record NY 17 SW 2; monument 66735
- Wikidata
- Q31060493
Sources
References
- 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