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Camp Hill, Bailiehill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1094
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1094 (1094)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Westerkirk
- National Grid reference
- NY 2558 9052
- Latitude
- 55.20334
- Longitude
- -3.17086
- Altitude
- 235 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- 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
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.26 ha, 0.34 ha, 1.3 ha
- Footprint
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1804); Other (1857); Other (1912); Other (1937); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1971); Other (1973); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (1993); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 647
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7700
- National record
- record NY 29 SE 8; monument 67373
- Wikidata
- Q31061087
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963b) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Feachem, R (1965) The North Britons: the prehistory of a Border people. Hutchinson: London
- 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) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh