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Gallaberry, Dryfeholm
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0967
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0967 (967)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dryfesdale
- National Grid reference
- NY 1135 8387
- Latitude
- 55.14128
- Longitude
- -3.39227
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.44 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1793); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Other (1977); Other (2007); Other (1937)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 655
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7224
- National record
- record NY 18 SW 6; monument 66869
- Wikidata
- Q31060569
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
- Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99