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Gray Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3248
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3248 (3248)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Teviothead
- National Grid reference
- NT 4615 0730
- Latitude
- 55.35678
- Longitude
- -2.85092
- Altitude
- 275 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.31 ha
- Footprint
- 0.62 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1726); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1961); Other (1965); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2148
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54012
- National record
- record NT 40 NE 13; monument 54012
- Wikidata
- Q31104903
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