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Kirk Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1129
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1129 (1129)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Castleton
- National Grid reference
- NY 4627 8639
- Latitude
- 55.16891
- Longitude
- -2.84503
- Altitude
- 275 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.49 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); Other (1858); Other (1865); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1961); Other (1979); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2149
- HER
- Scottish Borders 67858
- National record
- record NY 48 NE 1; monument 67858
- Wikidata
- Q31104788
Sources
References
- Maughan, J (1866) 'Notice of the fort on Cairby Hill, and other antiquities in Liddlesdale,in a letter to Mr Stuart, Sec. S.A. Scot'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 6 (1864-66), 103-7
- RCAHMS (1956) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of Roxburghshire: with the fourteenth report of the Commission, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh