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Mid Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1035
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1035 (1035)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tundergarth
- National Grid reference
- NY 2715 8497
- Latitude
- 55.15378
- Longitude
- -3.14477
- Altitude
- 330 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
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Other (1978); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12666
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7538
- National record
- record NY 28 SE 7; monument 67210
- Wikidata
- Q31060905
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