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Latitude: 54.7047 / 54°42'16"N
Longitude: -4.4884 / 4°29'18"W
OS Eastings: 239764
OS Northings: 537247
OS Grid: NX397372
Mapcode National: GBR HJ98.DT4
Mapcode Global: WH3VS.00YN
Entry Name: Laggan,fort,Carleton
Scheduled Date: 29 December 1950
Last Amended: 14 November 1994
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1989
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Glasserton
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument consists of a prehistoric hillfort situated on a spur overlooking the coast S of Fell of Carleton.
The fort is oval on plan. It is defended by two ramparts with an intervening ditch, and the internal area measures 76m NE-SW by 57m. The ramparts are in places reduced to little more than terraces. At the E side, where the defences survive best, the ditch is 6m wide and 1.6m deep. Around the crest of the hillock is a scarp suggesting the former presence of an inner wall. There is an entrance on the W, and the interior is crossed from N-S by an old field bank.
The area to be scheduled is an irregular oval, measuring a maximum of 120m ENE-WSW by 100m NW-SE, to include the fort, its outer defences and a small area around it in which evidence relating to its construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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