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Blackford
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0960
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0960 (960)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dryfesdale
- National Grid reference
- NY 1420 8090
- Latitude
- 55.11507
- Longitude
- -3.34670
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1945); Other (1966)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7177
- National record
- record NY 18 SW 19; monument 66824
- Wikidata
- Q31060194
Sources