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Glenkeil Hill
Scooped Settlement (Iron Age), Sheepfold (Post Medieval)
Site Name Glenkeil Hill
Classification Scooped Settlement (Iron Age), Sheepfold (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 67819
Site Number NY39SW 5
NGR NY 3202 9355
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67819
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Westerkirk
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY 3202 9355. This sub-oval shaped settlement at c210m. OD is generally as described. The remains of a stone wall run along the top of the natural scarp around the SW side.
Visited by OS (JRL), 28 August 1981.
Field Visit (August 1980)
Glenkeil Hill NY 320 935 NY39SW
There is a settlement on the S flank of Glenkeil Hill; the interior, which measures 43.3m by 37.4m, is scooped into the slope on the NW but elsewhere it is enclosed by a wall spread up to 4.2m in thickness and 0.9m in height. The entrance is on the ENE and within the interior there is a circular scoop measuring about 6.5m in diameter.
RCAHMS 1980, visited August 1980
Note (1997)
NY 3202 9355 NY39SW 5
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
