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Kemp's Castle, Euchan Water
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1463
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1463 (1463)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sanquhar
- National Grid reference
- NS 7728 0887
- Latitude
- 55.35849
- Longitude
- -3.93740
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Excavation (1870); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1937); Other (1954); Other (1978); Other (1984); Other (2016)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 656
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG28
- National record
- record NS 70 NE 1; monument 45412
- Wikidata
- Q31061344
Sources
References
- Brown, J (1891) The history of Sanquhar, Dumfries. Edinburgh; Glasgow
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 118)
- RCAHMS (1920) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Seventh report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Dumfries. HMSO: Edinburgh