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Latitude: 54.9275 / 54°55'39"N
Longitude: -4.7867 / 4°47'12"W
OS Eastings: 221535
OS Northings: 562759
OS Grid: NX215627
Mapcode National: GBR GHKP.86B
Mapcode Global: WH2SB.FDVV
Entry Name: Bennan of Garvilland,fort
Scheduled Date: 31 October 1924
Last Amended: 4 July 1995
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1955
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument consists of an Iron Age hillfort on the summit of
Bennan of Garvilland.
The fort measures about 100m NNE-SSW by 50m within a stone wall which encloses the summit of the ridge. The wall is best-preserved on the
S, where it stands up t0 1.7m high and is spread to 8m wide. On the E
it is much more ruined. The entrance, in the SW, is 1.7m wide.
Outside the entrance, running around the S side of the enclosure, is
a second wall which has an offset break on the SW, providing
overlapping protection for the entrance. This wall is up to 0.8m high and spread to 3.8m wide. A similar, but much less well-preserved,
wall runs across the N side of the ridge. The interior surface of the fort is rocky, but archaeological deposits are likely to survive in
the pockets of soil between outcrops.
The area to be scheduled is an irregular oval, measuring a maximum of 190m NNE-SSW by 105m, to include the fort and its outer walls, as
marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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