Burnswark, 'redoubt'
Fort (Iron Age)
Site Name Burnswark, 'redoubt'
Classification Fort (Iron Age)
Canmore ID 72883
Site Number NY17NE 2.02
NGR NY 186 787
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Hoddom
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
Note (1997)
NY17NE 2.02 186 787
Listed as fort and palisade. Native artifacts recovered by excavation include flint flakes, core and knife, whetstones, saddle and rotary querns, whorl, glass bracelets and pottery. Roman finds include bronze terret-rings, button, ring, brooch and studs, lead plumb-bob, ingot and glandes, pottery, stone ballista-balls, iron arrowheads and sword, coin, glass beads and stud. These are now held in the National Museum of Scotland and Dumfries Museum.
RCAHMS 1997.
