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Gibb's Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1127
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1127 (1127)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Langholm
- National Grid reference
- NY 3086 8418
- Latitude
- 55.14714
- Longitude
- -3.08636
- Altitude
- 290 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
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (East); 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 and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1981); Other (1988); Earthwork Survey (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4518
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG8014
- National record
- record NY 38 SW 13; monument 67716
- Wikidata
- Q31061309
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1997) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh