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Chippermore
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Chippermore
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 62130
Site Number NX24NE 9
NGR NX 2909 4826
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/62130
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Mochrum
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX24NE 9 2909 4826.
(NX 2909 4826) Homestead (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1982)
The RCAHMS describes this feature as the site of a circular enclosure about 84ft in diameter: The wall which surrounded it is almost obliterated by the walls of an old fold and the walls of two fields which meet on it.
(Feachem lists this, along with NX24NE 12 and others, as "ring-forts or dunans" but when describing NX24NE 12 in 1963, he classifies it as a homestead).
RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911; R W Feachem 1956
The remains of an enclosure are situated in an exposed position on the level top of a ridge at 91m amsl. It measures approximately 29.0m N-S by 26.0m within an earth and stone bank, best preserved in the south and which is 3.0m wide and 0.6m high. It has been so badly defaced by bisecting field walls, a sheepfold and field clearance heaps that its original character cannot be clearly ascertained.
It is scheduled as a fort and its exposed site (away from a hillslope position) seems to support this classification; however its relatively slight bank, lack of a ditch and its proximity to fertile land suggests that it is a homestead similar to its near neighbours (NX24NE 10, NX24NE 11, NX24NE 12 ).
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (TRG) 17 May 1977
The site that is scheduled is NX24NE 11 and not this site.
