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Burrain Skelton
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0953
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0953 (953)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Applegarth
- National Grid reference
- NY 1357 8768
- Latitude
- 55.17587
- Longitude
- -3.35864
- Altitude
- 195 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.56 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1912); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7145
- National record
- record NY 18 NW 8; monument 66794
- Wikidata
- Q31060134
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