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Gilknockie Castle
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1122
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1122 (1122)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Canonbie
- National Grid reference
- NY 3862 7821
- Latitude
- 55.09453
- Longitude
- -2.96334
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1915); Other (1970); Other (1973); Other (1980); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11996
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7830
- National record
- record NY 37 NE 4; monument 67519
- Wikidata
- Q31061195
Sources
References
- Hyslop and Hyslop, J and R (1912) Langholm as it was: a history of Langholm and Eskdale from the earliest times. Sunderland; Edinburgh; Glasgow
- 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