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Latitude: 54.7325 / 54°43'57"N
Longitude: -4.9718 / 4°58'18"W
OS Eastings: 208757
OS Northings: 541560
OS Grid: NX087415
Mapcode National: GBR GJ36.7DL
Mapcode Global: WH2T6.L9PT
Entry Name: Clanghie Point,fort 200m E of
Scheduled Date: 15 November 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4845
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 promontory protruding into Clanghie Bay. It is protected by a wall, reduced to a band of rubble 3.5m thick and 0.4m high, running along the edge of a natural gully cutting the promontory off from the landward side. On the E side of the gully is another line of defence consisting of a rampart, 2.4m thick and 0.4m high, and external ditch, 3.4m wide and 0.4m deep.
The interior measures 56m NE-SW by a maximum of 17m transversely. The area to be scheduled includes the fort and an area around it within which traces of activity associated with its usemay be found. It respects the shape of the monument and measures a maximum of 85m NE-SW by a maximum of 30m 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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