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Castle O'Er
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland · Atlas SC1103
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1103 (1103)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eskdalemuir
- National Grid reference
- NY 2419 9285
- Latitude
- 55.22406
- Longitude
- -3.19332
- Altitude
- 265 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.6 ha, 0.4 ha, 1.2 ha
- Footprint
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, other burning, and palisade
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Hornwork (South west); Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry, pasture, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1793); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1804); Other (1857); Earthwork Survey (1896); Excavation (1896); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1969); Earthwork Survey (1971); Other (1973); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (1980); Excavation (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 651
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7703
- National record
- record NY 29 SW 10; monument 67376
- Wikidata
- Q31061106
Sources
References
- Bell, R (1895) My Strange Pets and Other Memories of Country Life. Edinburgh
- Bell, R (1905) 'Forts and their connecting trenches in Eskdalemuir'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 2 Ser, 17 (1904-5), 76-85
- Christison, D (1898) Early fortifications in Scotland: motes, camps and forts: the Rhind lectures in archaeology for 1894. Blackwood & Sons: Edinburgh
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 115-16)
- Jobey, G (1971) 'Early settlements in eastern Dumfriesshire'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 Ser, 48 (1971), 78-105
- Mercer, R J (198a) 'Over Rig excavation and field survey, Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire, south-west Scotland', Univ Edinburgh Dept Archaeol Annu Rep 31, 19-22
- 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
- Roy, W (1793) The military antiquities of the Romans in Britain, London