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Doe's Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1034
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1034 (1034)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Middlebie
- National Grid reference
- NY 2713 8322
- Latitude
- 55.13804
- Longitude
- -3.14459
- Altitude
- 255 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- Footprint
- 0.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Earthwork Survey (1971); Other (1979); Other (1995); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7537
- National record
- record NY 28 SE 6; monument 67209
- Wikidata
- Q31060610
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