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Chester Knowe
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3244
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3244 (3244)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hawick
- National Grid reference
- NT 4749 0971
- Latitude
- 55.37858
- Longitude
- -2.83024
- Altitude
- 254 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Footprint
- 0.79 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
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 (1858); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1965); Other (1974); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3367
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54008
- National record
- record NT 40 NE 1; monument 54008
- Wikidata
- Q31104844
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