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Bank Head Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1082
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1082 (1082)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Westerkirk
- National Grid reference
- NY 2648 9276
- Latitude
- 55.22360
- Longitude
- -3.15716
- Altitude
- 213 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1804); Other (1857); Other (1912); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1971); Other (1973); Other (1978); Other (1980); Other (1981); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4333
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7632
- National record
- record NY 29 SE 10; monument 67304
- Wikidata
- Q31061031
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