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Tanner's Linn, Mollin
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3205
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3205 (3205)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Johnstone
- National Grid reference
- NY 0570 9255
- Latitude
- 55.21818
- Longitude
- -3.48380
- Altitude
- 145 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Other (1955); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1991); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10533
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG6777
- National record
- record NY 09 SE 2; monument 66397
- Wikidata
- Q31061365
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
- 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
- RCAHMS. (1997) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh