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Broadlee
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3243
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3243 (3243)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Roberton
- National Grid reference
- NT 3987 1124
- Latitude
- 55.39145
- Longitude
- -2.95081
- Altitude
- 215 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.64 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1962); Other (1985)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 53032
- National record
- record NT 31 SE 11; monument 53032
- Wikidata
- Q31104783
Sources
References
- 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