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Braehead
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0951
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0951 (951)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dalton
- National Grid reference
- NY 1187 7107
- Latitude
- 55.02641
- Longitude
- -3.38016
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1984); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12165
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7094
- National record
- record NY 17 SW 27; monument 66743
- Wikidata
- Q31060516
Sources