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Craighousesteads
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1032
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1032 (1032)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tundergarth
- National Grid reference
- NY 2375 8519
- Latitude
- 55.15517
- Longitude
- -3.19817
- Altitude
- 260 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Footprint
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Other (1963); Earthwork Survey (1969); Other (1971); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2330
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7512
- National record
- record NY 28 NW 8; monument 67183
- Wikidata
- Q31060888
Sources