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Ericstane
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3211
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3211 (3211)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Moffat
- National Grid reference
- NT 0690 1105
- Latitude
- 55.38459
- Longitude
- -3.47108
- Altitude
- 220 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
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (East); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Earthwork Survey (1890); Other (1898); Other (1912); Other (1937); Other (1959); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 654
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG379
- National record
- record NT 01 SE 3; monument 48495
- Wikidata
- Q31061408
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
- 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