Dungeon Hill
2 classifications here — HuMP and Simm — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 620.9 m · 2,037 ft
- Prominence
- 116 m
- Grid reference
- NX 46037 85077
- Coordinates
- 55.13608, -4.41680
- County / area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Region
- Carrick and Galloway
- OS Landranger
- 77
- OS Explorer
- 318
- Summit feature
- rock slab 6m W of cairn
- Key col
- NX442846 (505 m)
About Dungeon Hill
Dungeon Hill gives its name to the Dungeon Hills, a sub-range of the Galloway Hills within the Southern Uplands, though it is the lowest of the three main summits along that ridge.
It is normally walked as part of a traverse of the Dungeon Hills, and sometimes combined with the Range of the Awful Hand. Some parties come in from the east, from Backhill of Bush bothy across the Silver Flowe, but the ground on that side is extremely demanding.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Dungeon Hill (hill) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
Access rights here
Yes Right to roam: Statutory right of responsible access to most land and inland water.
Yes Wild camping: Wild camping is broadly lawful under the 2003 Act.
General position for Scotland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Scotland · check another location.
Daylight at this summit today
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Computed astronomically for 55.136, -4.417. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (621 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
rock under cairn (NX 46045 85076) is 20cm lower.
The recorded summit point is rock slab 6m W of cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Abney level/Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 11-Dec-22
- Drop measured from
- NX442846 · 505 m
Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.
Which hill this one belongs to
Dungeon Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Merrick (843 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 505 m.
Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.
Nearest listed peaks
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Mullwharchar | 692 m | 1.7 km |
| Craignaw | 646 m | 1.7 km |
| Merrick | 843 m | 3.3 km |
| Corserine | 814 m | 4.2 km |
| Kirriereoch Hill | 786.8 m | 4.4 km |
| Kirriereoch Hill (boundary) | 782 m | 4.6 km |