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Whitcastles
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1030
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1030 (1030)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hutton And Corrie
- National Grid reference
- NY 2331 8702
- Latitude
- 55.17155
- Longitude
- -3.20557
- Altitude
- 240 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Other (1971); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7509
- National record
- record NY 28 NW 5; monument 67180
- Wikidata
- Q31060562
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