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Minsca
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1036
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1036 (1036)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Middlebie
- National Grid reference
- NY 2240 8116
- Latitude
- 55.11876
- Longitude
- -3.21825
- Altitude
- 242 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- 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
- 0.28 ha
- Footprint
- 0.49 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Other (1970); Earthwork Survey (1971); Other (1995); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12663
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7554
- National record
- record NY 28 SW 5; monument 67225
- Wikidata
- Q31060922
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