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Latitude: 55.391 / 55°23'27"N
Longitude: -3.4607 / 3°27'38"W
OS Eastings: 307571
OS Northings: 611753
OS Grid: NT075117
Mapcode National: GBR 4683.K9
Mapcode Global: WH5V1.TR7K
Entry Name: White Hill, settlement 700m SSE of Corehead
Scheduled Date: 15 May 1995
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6192
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement
Location: Moffat
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale North
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
The monument comprises the remains of a late prehistoric defended settlement (or lightly walled fort) on the summit of the low eminence called White Hill.
The settlement is oval on plan, and has two concentric defensive elements, which may not be of the same date. The innermost is a circuit of tumbled rubble, probably the remains of a stout drystone wall, containing an area some 60m N-S by 40m. There is an entrance on the ESE. About 10m outside this ruined wall is a second series of defences, composed of two earthen ramparts with a medial ditch.
The ramparts are each up to 6m broad and stand up to 1m above the ditch. There is an entrance gap 3m wide on the E side. These ramparts appear to have been at least partly faced or edged in drystone walling, stretches of which survive on the S and E sides of the settlement. There has been extensive dumping on the monument of stone cleared from nearby fields.
The area to be scheduled is approximately oval, to include all of the defensive elements described above and the ground between and within them and a small area outside, in which evidence relating to the settlement's construction and use may survive. The area is defined by a line some 15m outside the foot of the outermost rampart, and measures a maximum of 135m N-S by 120m, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a defended settlement of a type transitional between an enclosed settlement and a true fort. Its apparent multi-phase construction and its location in the centre of a fertile valley ringed by other, lesser, enclosed settlements serve to enhance its importance, and it has the potential, through excavation and analysis, to provide important information about late prehistoric settlement organisation and economy.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument NT 01 SE 6.
Reference:
Feachem, R. W. (1965) The North Britons, 181-2.
RCAHMS (1920) Inventory of Monuments in Dumfries-shire, 173, No. 487.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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