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Fairholm
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0958
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0958 (958)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dryfesdale
- National Grid reference
- NY 1264 8160
- Latitude
- 55.12099
- Longitude
- -3.37136
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.79 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Earthwork Survey (1769); Other (1857); Other (1890); Other (1913); Excavation (1952); Other (1966); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2385
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7169
- National record
- record NY 18 SW 12; monument 66817
- Wikidata
- Q31060536
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1891) 'A general view of the forts, camps, and motes of Dumfriesshire, with a detailed description of those in Upper Annandale, and an introduction to the study of Scottish motes'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 25 (1890-91), 198-256
- 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
- Roy, W (1793) The military antiquities of the Romans in Britain, London
- St Joseph, J K (1952) 'Forts. From the Esk to Dalmakethar', in Miller, S N 1952 The Roman occupation of south-western Scotland. Maclehose: Glasgow