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Dalmakethar
Building (Period Unknown), Enclosure (Period Unknown)
Site Name Dalmakethar
Classification Building (Period Unknown), Enclosure (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 66955
Site Number NY19SW 14
NGR NY 1161 9140
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/66955
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Applegarth
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY19SW 14 1161 9140
NY1160 9141. Situated at the foot of the promontory on which NY19SW 13 stands, but still overlooking a slight slope to the W, are the remains of a small enclosure. It consists of a flat bottomed ditch, L-shaped in plan, measuring c. 5.0 to 7.0m wide by 0.5m deep, with an upcast bank on the interior c. 1.0m high serves to drain surface water from the amorphous remains of a stone building or hut that lies within it to the W.
This has the appearance of having been a homestead, possibly contemporary with the probable settlement nearby(NY19SW 4).
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R D), 5 January 1972.
Field Visit (15 August 1990)
NY 1161 9140 NY19SW 14
Situated on a W-facing slope about 700m SSE of Dalmakethar steading, there are the remains of an enclosure. Roughly square on plan, it measures about 20.5m from NNE to SSW by 19m transversely within a stony bank (up to 3.4m thick and 0.5m high) and an outer ditch (up to 3.6m broad and 0.6m deep). The bank and ditch are well preserved on the N and W, but the bank has been reduced to a low rubble spread on the S and, on the E, it is no more than a low outer-facing scarp. There is no trace of the ditch on either the E or S sides. Within the enclosure there are the wasted remains of a subrectangular structure which measures about 8.8m from NNE to SSW by 6.6m transversely overall.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 15 August 1990.
Listed as enclosure.
RCAHMS 1997.
