Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Archaeology Notes
Event ID 725494
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/725494
NX19NE 29 19026 99600
NX 190 996. Cropmarks reveal a D-shaped fort on the rounded summit of Gallow Hill, 350m NNW of Girvan Mains farmhouse; it measures about 58 by 45m within the ditch up to 6m broad, and there are entrances on the NE and SW respectively.
RCAHMS 1983
NX 19026 99600 There is no surface trace of this enclosure on the highest, domed point of a field under plough at about 25m OD. The ditch circuit may have been complete; from the terminal points on the air photographs there is a moderate, approximately 20 to 25m, uncultivated slope down to the scarp edge of the raised beach. As such, this probable univallate work is not in a strong defensive position and suggests a settlement rather than a fort. No finds were made on perambulation, and the farmer at Girvan Mains reports nothing unusual in this area.
Visited by OS (JRL) 24 November 1980.
