What is recorded here
Shancastle Doon is a possible fort hidden in Dumfries and Galloway, its exact age still unknown. The land may have held weapons, watchers or ordinary life before memory faded.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Shancastle Doon as Fort (period Unassigned)(possible). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
Places near here
Shancastle DoonTrack(s) (period Unassigned) · 288 yd
KirklandFinger Post (20th Century) · 513 yd
Kirkland, Glencairn Parish Church and ChurchyardBurial Ground (medieval), Church (19th Century) (1836), War Memorial(s) (20th Century) · 693 yd
Kirkland, Cairn Water, Kirkland BridgeRoad Bridge (period Unassigned) · 723 yd
Peelton HillMountain / peak · 1436 yd
Maxwelton HillMountain / peak · 1556 yd
Old CrawfordtonTower House (medieval) · 1.1 mi
War MemorialMemorial · 1.5 mi
CraigturraCave (period Unassigned), Scraper (tool) (flint)(period Unassigned) · 1.7 mi
Glencairn Memorial InstituteMemorial · 2.3 mi
Dalmacallan ForestForest · 2.5 mi
SnadeCastle (medieval), Earthwork (period Unassigned) · 3.7 miOther information
Photo: Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0