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Craig Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1125
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1125 (1125)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Westerkirk
- National Grid reference
- NY 3385 8782
- Latitude
- 55.18026
- Longitude
- -3.04031
- Altitude
- 240 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- 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 (1804); Other (1857); Other (1912); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1969); Other (1979); Other (1986); Earthwork Survey (1992); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12740
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG7951
- National record
- record NY 38 NW 8; monument 67649
- Wikidata
- Q31061283
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