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Fourmerkland
Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4380
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4380 (4380)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Holywood
- National Grid reference
- NX 9110 8006
- Latitude
- 55.10301
- Longitude
- -3.70829
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and valley bottom
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1989)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dumfries & Galloway MDG8671
- National record
- record NX 98 SW 78; monument 71546
- Wikidata
- Q31061243
Sources