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Billholm
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1087
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1087 (1087)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Westerkirk
- National Grid reference
- NY 2795 9205
- Latitude
- 55.21743
- Longitude
- -3.13402
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Footprint
- 0.72 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1971); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1973); Other (1978); Other (1980); Other (1981)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7643
- National record
- record NY 29 SE 20; monument 67315
- Wikidata
- Q31060760
Sources
References
- Jobey, G (1971) 'Early settlements in eastern Dumfriesshire'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 Ser, 48 (1971), 78-105