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Loch Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1123
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1123 (1123)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ewes
- National Grid reference
- NY 3759 8996
- Latitude
- 55.19997
- Longitude
- -2.98206
- Altitude
- 258 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Footprint
- 0.64 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Other (1912); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1979); Other (1980); Earthwork Survey (1992); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4401
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7906
- National record
- record NY 38 NE 9; monument 67606
- Wikidata
- Q31061261
Sources
References
- 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