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Crawthat Cottage
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1042
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1042 (1042)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tundergarth
- National Grid reference
- NY 2431 8284
- Latitude
- 55.13414
- Longitude
- -3.18876
- Altitude
- 165 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Earthwork Survey (1912); Earthwork Survey (1968); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7556
- National record
- record NY 28 SW 7; monument 67227
- Wikidata
- Q31060701
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
- Truckell, A E (1955) 'Crawthat Cottage, Eskdalemuir', Disc Exc Scot 1955, 12