Knock Fell, Wigtownshire

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Knock Fell
Wigtownshire
Knock Fell trig - geograph.org.uk - 214276.jpg
Range: Galloway Hills
Summit: 574 feet NX25515576
54°51’58"N, 4°43’14"W

Knock Fell, orherwise known as ‘Knock of Luce’, is a modest hill of 574 feet in Wigtownshire. It is an outlier of the Galloway Hills, by the north coast of Luce Bay.

The summit is crowned with the earthworks of a hill fort,[1] and with cairn and a more modern artefact - a trig pillar. Other traces of past ages around the hill include prehistoric burnt mounds.[2]

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