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Over Cassock
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3216
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3216 (3216)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eskdalemuir
- National Grid reference
- NT 2308 0443
- Latitude
- 55.32792
- Longitude
- -3.21394
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.63 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.14 ha, 0.45 ha, 0.56 ha, 0.63 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1912); Other (1962); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1980); Other (1989); Earthwork Survey (1991); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4723
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG474
- National record
- record NT 20 SW 5; monument 51169
- Wikidata
- Q31061437
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 116)
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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