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Shaw Hill, Calkin
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1124
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1124 (1124)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Westerkirk
- National Grid reference
- NY 3045 8834
- Latitude
- 55.18446
- Longitude
- -3.09382
- Altitude
- 260 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Footprint
- 0.56 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Simple Gap (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Earthwork Survey (1967); Other (1979); Other (1981); Earthwork Survey (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4396
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7918
- National record
- record NY 38 NW 2; monument 67618
- Wikidata
- Q31061273
Sources
References
- 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