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<< Our Photo Pages >> Rispain Camp - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway

Submitted by cosmic on Monday, 11 October 2010  Page Views: 11928

Multi-periodSite Name: Rispain Camp
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.481 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Wigtown
Map Ref: NX4293039930
Latitude: 54.729744N  Longitude: 4.440754W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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drolaf visited on 1st Apr 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Access: 4 in very good nick, with good views NE across Wigtown bay to Cairnharrow and the hills around Cairnhulie. turn left at the road sign and park up at the visitors car park. then it's a short walk.

SolarMegalith visited on 22nd Sep 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5

h_fenton have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Access: 4.5

Rispain Camp
Rispain Camp submitted by h_fenton : Rispain Camp, a Kite Aerial Photograph taken close to the end of the day, this view is from the east. 16 September 2010 @ 6.10pm (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Dumfries and Galloway

This Historic Scotland site was thought to be a Roman Camp until it was excavated in the late 1970's when radiocarbon dating established it as a defended homestead dating to around 60BC.

The surrounding ditch is roughly rectangular and was almost 6m in depth with upcast banks on both sides. The entrance gate is on the East/NE side with archaeogical evidence for a wooden gateway. The enclosed area measures some 0.35 hectares (no idea what that means but looked bigger than football pitch to me)!

For more information see Canmore ID 63122 which starts off its Publication Account of 1986 as: "This rectangular earthwork on the slope of Camp Hill, north-west of Rispain Farm, is an object-lesson in the perils of archaeological fIeld survey and excavation. Long believed to have been of Roman origin, it was excavated in 1901 but yielded no evidence of date or character. It was later re-classifIed as a possible medieval moated site, although its size, situation, and deep V-shaped ditch were acknowledged to be untypical. With the assistance of radiocarbon dating techniques, excavations in 1978-81 were able to establish that it was neither Roman nor medieval, but a defended native homestead dating to around 60 BC." !
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Rispain Camp
Rispain Camp submitted by SolarMegalith : Bottom of the ditch of this well-preserved Iron Age settlement (photo taken on September 2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Rispain Camp
Rispain Camp submitted by cosmic : The South Ditch (Vote or comment on this photo)

Rispain Camp
Rispain Camp submitted by cosmic : Ditch by gateway (Vote or comment on this photo)

Rispain Camp
Rispain Camp submitted by drolaf : artist impression of the fortified settlement Rispain RC dated 60 BC (Vote or comment on this photo)

Rispain Camp
Rispain Camp submitted by markj99 : Rispain Camp enclosure viewed from S.

Rispain Camp
Rispain Camp submitted by SolarMegalith : Earthworks in the western part of the settlement (photo taken on September 2016).

Rispain Camp
Rispain Camp submitted by SolarMegalith : Bank and ditch in the southern part of the settlement (photo taken on September 2016).

Rispain Camp
Rispain Camp submitted by SolarMegalith : Causewayed entrance to the settlement (photo taken on September 2016).

Rispain Camp
Rispain Camp submitted by cosmic : Ditch by gateway (2 comments)

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Re: Rispain Camp by h_fenton on Sunday, 03 October 2010
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Re: Rispain Camp by Anonymous on Monday, 24 October 2005
This site has to be seen to be appreciated...photographs do not do it justice, the sense of the site being still "alive' is all around. The scale of the defensive ditch is awe inspiring in spite of years of erosion.One can only guess of the site's impact in its heydays
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