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Little Float is an Iron Age fort located in Wigtownshire, south-west Scotland. The monument sits on bedrock of the Gala Group, a wacke formation dating to the Telychian period, which provides a firm foundation across this lowland landscape. The fort is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4779.
Iron Age fortifications in Wigtownshire typically comprised one or more banks and ditches arranged concentrically or in linear fashion, serving both defensive and administrative purposes within the territories of regional communities. The geological bedrock of wacke—a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock—would have presented substantial challenges for the construction of substantial earthworks, requiring careful engineering to create effective ditches and ramparts.
Little Float forms part of the wider Iron Age settlement pattern of south-west Scotland, a region with significant evidence of Iron Age occupation and fortified settlement. The fort's survival as an earthwork monument provides important evidence for understanding the distribution and character of defended sites in this region during the latter prehistoric period, when such forts served as focal points for communities during the first millennium before Christ.
Little Float,fort 630m SW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4779. View the official record →
Little Float is an Iron Age fort located in Wigtownshire, south-west Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4779.
Little Float,fort 630m SW of dates from the iron age period, and is classified as a fort. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Little Float,fort 630m SW of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM4779.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Float Bay,fort SE of (0.8 km), Craigencroy,cairn 270m SSE of West Ringuinea (1.1 km), Float,hut circle and enclosure 1050m WSW of (1.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Little Float,fort 630m SW of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Little Float,fort 630m SW of stands on Gala Group, bedrock that formed in the Telychian. The rock here is wacke.