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Hell's Hole
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3209
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3209 (3209)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkpatrick-Juxta
- National Grid reference
- NT 0552 0202
- Latitude
- 55.30321
- Longitude
- -3.48981
- Altitude
- 234 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1912); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1973); Other (1978); Other (1990)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG336
- National record
- record NT 00 SE 6; monument 48425
- Wikidata
- Q31061074
Sources
References
- Jackson, A M (1978) Forestry and archaeology. A study in survival of field monuments in south west Scotland. Hertford
- 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