Archaeology Notes

Event ID 727380

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX98SW 9 9276 8324.

(Approx: NX 9276 8324) Promontory fort? Parch marks on AP.

Visited by J K St Joseph 4 November 1949.

There are traces of a broad, shallow immeasurable hollow, probably natural, occurring where the wide curved parch mark appears on the AP's. There are no surface indications of the other marks. The hollow cuts off a promontory to the east, but the natural slopes are quite gentle. Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964

Enclosure and cropmarks visible on air photographs.

Further aerial photographs taken in 1978 (two enclosures and cropmarks noted).

Rectangular enclosure on a slope near a probable Dark Age religious enclosure, now occupied by Dunscore Old Kirkyard and Lag's Tomb, down to the Glasgow Road. One of the enclosures is double-ditched and is similar to that at Carronbridge. A sub-rectangular enclosure and a large circular enclosure lie nearby.

A E Truckell 1984