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Penchrise Pen
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3245
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3245 (3245)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 4907 0623
- Latitude
- 55.34748
- Longitude
- -2.80467
- Altitude
- 439 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.55 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North east); 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
- curvilinear platforms, other roundhouse evidence, and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1963); Other (1965); Other (1979); Other (1987); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2296
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54052
- National record
- record NT 40 NE 5; monument 54052
- Wikidata
- Q31104849
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