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Millbank
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0962
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0962 (962)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Applegarth
- National Grid reference
- NY 1281 8489
- Latitude
- 55.15067
- Longitude
- -3.36971
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1912); Other (1966)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7185
- National record
- record NY 18 SW 25; monument 66831
- Wikidata
- Q31060209
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