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Dodburn Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3246
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3246 (3246)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 4827 0750
- Latitude
- 55.35880
- Longitude
- -2.81752
- Altitude
- 292 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 0.75 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.46 ha, 0.75 ha
- Footprint
- 0.83 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1726); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1933); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1974); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3460
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54058
- National record
- record NT 40 NE 7; monument 54058
- Wikidata
- Q31104852
Sources
References
- Gordon, A (1726) Itinerarium Septentrionale: or A Journey Thro most of the Counties of Scotland And Those in the North of England. London
- 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