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Beattock Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3208
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3208 (3208)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkpatrick-Juxta
- National Grid reference
- NT 0657 0209
- Latitude
- 55.30404
- Longitude
- -3.47330
- Altitude
- 261 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Footprint
- 0.44 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Oblique (East); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Earthwork Survey (1890); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1973); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (1990); Other (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4748
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG325
- National record
- record NT 00 SE 5; monument 48414
- Wikidata
- Q31061399
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1891) 'A general view of the forts, camps, and motes of Dumfriesshire, with a detailed description of those in Upper Annandale, and an introduction to the study of Scottish motes', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 25 (1890-91), 198-256
- Feachem, R W (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
- RCAHMS (1997) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh