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Burgh Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3250
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3250 (3250)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Teviothead
- National Grid reference
- NT 4681 0616
- Latitude
- 55.34661
- Longitude
- -2.84029
- Altitude
- 314 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Footprint
- 65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Oblique (South west); Simple Gap (South 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
- round stone structures and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1726); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1770); Other (1858); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1961); Other (1965); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2169
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54017
- National record
- record NT 40 NE 18; monument 54017
- Wikidata
- Q31104913
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