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Latitude: 54.882 / 54°52'55"N
Longitude: -4.8879 / 4°53'16"W
OS Eastings: 214839
OS Northings: 557954
OS Grid: NX148579
Mapcode National: GBR GH9T.3SJ
Mapcode Global: WH2SG.WKL8
Entry Name: Round Dounan,fort,Dunragit House
Scheduled Date: 1 September 1964
Last Amended: 14 November 1994
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1995
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Old Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument consists of a fort, of late prehistoric or early historic date, on a natural hillock in the policies of Dunragit House.
The hillock is a rock outcrop, and rock is exposed on the E side. The top has been enclosed by a stone wall, with an entrance on the NW side. Access to this was gained by a sloping approach track, although in its present form the old track on the W side is probably later than the fort. An outer bank encircles the foot of the mound except on the E.
It has been suggested that the name of the locality, Dunragit, derives from the name of the early historic kingdom, Rheged, which held sway over this part of Scotland. No dating evidence has come from the monument itself.
The area to be scheduled is irregular, bounded on the E by the W face of a modern boundary and elsewhere by a line running some 10m outside the outer face of the low bank around the foot of the hillock. The area has maximum dimensions of 100m NNW-SSE by 75m, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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