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Balgray Cleuchheads
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0952
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0952 (952)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Applegarth
- National Grid reference
- NY 1438 8586
- Latitude
- 55.15966
- Longitude
- -3.34538
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.69 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1898); Other (1912); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7118
- National record
- record NY 18 NW 11; monument 66768
- Wikidata
- Q31060127
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