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Morton Mains Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1561
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1561 (1561)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Morton
- National Grid reference
- NS 8923 0057
- Latitude
- 55.28679
- Longitude
- -3.74571
- Altitude
- 325 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 0.75 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.4 ha, 0.65 ha, 0.75 ha
- Footprint
- 0.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, ditches, and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Passage-way/Corridor (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1912); Earthwork Survey (1955); Earthwork Survey (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG212
- National record
- record NS 80 SE 7; monument 46376
- Wikidata
- Q31060991
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1955) 'Iron Age and early medieval monuments in Galloway and Dumfriesshire'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 ser, 33 (1954-5), 58-65
- Page(s): 62-4 Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- 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