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Latitude: 54.7167 / 54°43'0"N
Longitude: -4.9645 / 4°57'52"W
OS Eastings: 209149
OS Northings: 539778
OS Grid: NX091397
Mapcode National: GBR GJ37.QPY
Mapcode Global: WH2T6.QP4Z
Entry Name: Muldaddie,fort 510m SW of
Scheduled Date: 15 October 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4776
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Kirkmaiden
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a fort of the Iron Age situated on a high,steep-sided promontory to the SW of Muldaddie Hill. The promontory is defended by a rampart, 4m thick and 0.5m high, and external ditch, 4m wide and 0.8m deep. The entrance is to the SE where the defences stop short of the cliff-top. The interior measures 26m NE-SW by up to 20m transversely.
The area to be scheduled includes the fort and an area around it within which traces of activity associated with its use may be found. It respects tha shape of the monument and measures a maximum of 50m NE-SW by a maximum of 40m transversely, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a fort of the Iron Age which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement in the area. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of other forts in the W Rhins; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the organisation of the prehistoric landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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