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Latitude: 55.2168 / 55°13'0"N
Longitude: -3.1244 / 3°7'27"W
OS Eastings: 328557
OS Northings: 591969
OS Grid: NY285919
Mapcode National: GBR 68M3.CR
Mapcode Global: WH6X9.Z4BL
Entry Name: Shielburn,settlement 350m NW of
Scheduled Date: 13 March 1986
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4372
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement
Location: Westerkirk
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale East and Eskdale
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
The monument is a defended settlement of the Iron Age, comprising an area 48m (NNE-SSW) x 45m (ESE-WNW) within a single rampart up to 3m high on the W side and a ditch up to 12m wide on the outer edge of which is a counterscarp bank. There are traces of stonework on the west of the bank. The entrance is on the SE side. Within the defences are traces of a number of house scoops, possibly up to 8. It is located on a gentle slope of Sheil Hill. A modern dyke crosses the SE corner.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance to the themes of Iron Age settlement and defence. It is of particular importance as an exceptionally fine field monument and of interest for the stonework in the west part of the bank. Taken with the associated monuments at Bogle Walls and Bankhead Hill, and the fort at Castle O?er, the monument is important to themes of Iron Age economic and social structures.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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The monument is RCAHMS number NY 29 SE 13.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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