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Birny Knowe
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3247
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3247 (3247)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Teviothead
- National Grid reference
- NT 4597 0891
- Latitude
- 55.37122
- Longitude
- -2.85407
- Altitude
- 235 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Footprint
- 0.44 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1932); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1961); Other (1965); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2151
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54011
- National record
- record NT 40 NE 12; monument 54011
- Wikidata
- Q31104882
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