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Newhall Hill (NW)
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1037
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1037 (1037)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tundergarth
- National Grid reference
- NY 2380 8371
- Latitude
- 55.14196
- Longitude
- -3.19691
- 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
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Earthwork Survey (1967); Other (1970); Other (1977); Other (1979); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3963
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7555
- National record
- record NY 28 SW 6; monument 67226
- Wikidata
- Q31060942
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
- RCAHMS (1997) Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh