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Dryfesdalegate
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0970
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0970 (970)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dryfesdale
- National Grid reference
- NY 1168 8244
- Latitude
- 55.12847
- Longitude
- -3.38663
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); 1st Identified Written Reference (1793); Other (1858); Other (1890); Other (1912); Other (1964); Other (1966); Excavation (1967); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12002
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7250
- National record
- record NY 18 SW 9; monument 66895
- Wikidata
- Q31060584
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
- Simmonds, S (1967) 'Dryfesdalegate, flints', Disc Exc Scot 1967, 23
- Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99