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Rink Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC1539
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1539 (1539)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Caddonfoot
- National Grid reference
- NT 4802 3270
- Latitude
- 55.58519
- Longitude
- -2.82619
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.28 ha, 0.9 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1726); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1858); Earthwork Survey (1894); Other (1896); Earthwork Survey (1950); Other (1961); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2119
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54448
- National record
- record NT 43 SE 7; monument 54448
- Wikidata
- Q31104791
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1895) 'The forts of Selkirk, the Gala Water, the Southern slopes of the Lammermoors, and the north of Roxburgh'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 29 (1894-50), 108-79
- Feachem, R W (1963) Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Gordon, A (1726) Itinerarium Septentrionale: or A Journey Thro most of the Counties of Scotland And Those in the North of England. London
- Lynn, F (1898)' A survey of the Catrail'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 32 (1897-8), 62-90
- RCAHMS (1957) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of Selkirkshire with the fifteenth report of the Commission. HMSO: Edinburgh