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Carby Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1130
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1130 (1130)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Castleton
- National Grid reference
- NY 4906 8436
- Latitude
- 55.15097
- Longitude
- -2.80087
- Altitude
- 260 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Footprint
- 0.55 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1865); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1958); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1690
- HER
- Scottish Borders 67896
- National record
- record NY 48 SE 7; monument 67896
- Wikidata
- Q31104790
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 154)
- 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