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Latitude: 54.9322 / 54°55'55"N
Longitude: -5.0818 / 5°4'54"W
OS Eastings: 202652
OS Northings: 564071
OS Grid: NX026640
Mapcode National: GBR FHTN.YVV
Mapcode Global: WH1R1.X988
Entry Name: Mid Dinduff, fort 100m ESE of
Scheduled Date: 7 December 1998
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7343
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Kirkcolm
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument comprises a fort of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies in pasture at around 20m OD, at the edge of a steep-sided scarp. It comprises a multiple-ditched fort with four concentric C-shaped ditches, each measuring about 3m wide and spaced at intervals of about 4m. The ditches are not visible in the arable field to the E, but almost certainly continue there. However, this area is excluded from scheduling for lack of positive evidence. The fort is naturally defended on the S by the scarp. Fortified settlements such as this are characteristic of the early to mid Iron Age (ca. 600 BC - AD 100 ).
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is on plan a segment of a circle with a maximum radius of 90m, bounded on the S and on the E by field boundaries, which are themselves excluded from scheduling. The area is marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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