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Broomhillbank Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1020
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1020 (1020)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Applegarth
- National Grid reference
- NY 1285 9086
- Latitude
- 55.20431
- Longitude
- -3.37093
- Altitude
- 250 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 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.78 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.4 ha, 0.78 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Earthwork Survey (1890); Other (1912); Earthwork Survey (1969); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1990); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12662
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7345
- National record
- record NY 19 SW 7; monument 66971
- Wikidata
- Q31060790
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
- 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