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Alais Knowe, Elbeckhill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1005
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1005 (1005)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wamphray
- National Grid reference
- NY 1426 9355
- Latitude
- 55.22872
- Longitude
- -3.34959
- Altitude
- 240 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.42 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Earthwork Survey (1968); Other (1972); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (1990); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12708
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7323
- National record
- record NY 19 SW 12; monument 66953
- Wikidata
- Q31060745
Sources
References
- Jobey, G (1971) 'Early settlements in eastern Dumfriesshire'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 Ser, 48 (1971), 78-105
- 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
- RCAHMS (1997) Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh