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Latitude: 54.9412 / 54°56'28"N
Longitude: -5.1847 / 5°11'4"W
OS Eastings: 196111
OS Northings: 565374
OS Grid: NW961653
Mapcode National: GBR FHKN.CWL
Mapcode Global: WH1R0.B2C9
Entry Name: High Auchneel,fort 890m WSW of
Scheduled Date: 29 October 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4885
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Leswalt
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a fort of the Iron Age situated on top of the seacliffs to the WSW of High Auchneel. A ditch, surviving to 4.3m and 0.5m deep, with an internal bank 3m thick and 0.3m high, has been constructed to cut off and defend a small, steep sided, promontory. The internal area measures 23.5m E-W by up to 16m transversely. The entrance was probably along the S side of the approach to the fort,a line now followed by a modern fence. The area to be scheduled includes the fort and an area around it within which traces ofactivity associated with its use may be found. It measures 80m E-Wby 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 area; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the development and organisation of the prehistoric landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NW 96 NE 8.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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