Fort 800m SSW of Cardryne Kirkmaiden, Scotland
Scheduled Monument Data
Fort 800m SSW of Cardryne has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since scheduling.
- Historic Scotland ID
- SM0
- Name
- Cardryne, fort 800m SSW of
- Parish
- Kirkmaiden
- County
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Easting
- 211380
- Northing
- 531739
- Categories
- Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
- Date Listed
- 15 October 1990
- Date Updated
- 28 January 2020
Scheduled Monument Description
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
The monument is a fort of the Iron Age situated on a narrow
promontory formed by coastal cliffs to the W and S and a stream gully
to the E. The gently sloping promontory has been defended by a bank,
5m wide and 1.5m high, and an external ditch, 7m wide and 1.5m deep.
The defended area measures 34m N-S by a maximum of 8m transversely.
The fort is bisected by a modern fence and the ditch is partly
filled, in its E sector, by an old drystone dyke which also forms
part of the E limit of the defended area. The area to be scheduled includes the defences, the defended area, and an area around them in which traces of activity associated with the occupation of the site
may be found. The area measures a maximum of 60m N-S by 30m transversely, bounded by the cliff edge to the W and S, as marked in
red on the attached map.
