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White Hill
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3212
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3212 (3212)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Moffat
- National Grid reference
- NT 0757 1175
- Latitude
- 55.39100
- Longitude
- -3.46074
- Altitude
- 222 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.39 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Earthwork Survey (1890); Other (1912); Earthwork Survey (1955); Other (1973); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (1991); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6192
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG4579
- National record
- record NT 01 SE 6; monument 48498
- Wikidata
- Q31061413
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
- Feachem, R W (1965) The North Britons: the prehistory of a Border people. Hutchinson: London
- 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