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Ogle Linn
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3206
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3206 (3206)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Johnstone
- National Grid reference
- NY 0474 9520
- Latitude
- 55.24184
- Longitude
- -3.49968
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1959); Earthwork Survey (1991); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10497
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG8935
- National record
- record NY 09 NW 5; monument 66381
- Wikidata
- Q31061384
Sources
References
- RCAHMS. (1997) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh