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Leap Linn
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2386
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2386 (2386)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ashkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4460 1952
- Latitude
- 55.46640
- Longitude
- -2.87780
- Altitude
- 275 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.41 ha
- Footprint
- 0.58 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1950); Other (1962); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2233
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54134
- National record
- record NT 41 NW; monument 54134
- Wikidata
- Q31104802
Sources
References
- 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