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Fort, Meikle Wood Hill

A Scheduled Monument in Castle Douglas and Crocketford, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9377 / 54°56'15"N

Longitude: -3.9599 / 3°57'35"W

OS Eastings: 274533

OS Northings: 562097

OS Grid: NX745620

Mapcode National: GBR 0CSB.HR

Mapcode Global: WH4W0.45L0

Entry Name: Fort, Meikle Wood Hill

Scheduled Date: 29 October 1999

Last Amended: 4 October 2022

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Source ID: SM8367

Schedule Class: Cultural

Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)

Location: Kelton

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Castle Douglas and Crocketford

Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire

Description

The monument comprises the remains of a multi-ditched, sub-circular fort visible as buried archaeological features seen in aerial photographs. The fort is likely to date to the Iron Age (approximately 500BC-500AD) and it includes the visible remains of a roundhouse located within the fort interior. The monument is located within deciduous woodland and improved farmland on the summit of Meikle Wood Hill, at 70m above sea level.

The remains of the fort can be seen in aerial imagery and include an arrangement of crescent shaped twin ditches forming the boundary to the fort's interior. The ditches enclose a circular area approximately 70m in diameter. The western side of the fort is obscured by mature woodland. In the east southeast section, there is a break in the ditch suggesting the position of an entrance. In the southeast section there is a third, concentric ditch feature. At the approximate centre of the fort, there are the remains of a single roundhouse measuring approximately 15m in diameter.  

The scheduled area is a clipped circle, measuring 45m in diameter. It includes the remains described above and an area around within which evidence relating to the monument's construction, use and abandonment is expected to survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map extract. Above-ground elements of all modern boundary features are excluded from the schedule.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Canmore

https://canmore.org.uk/site/64690/


HER/SMR Reference

MDG4615

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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