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White Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3251
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3251 (3251)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 4785 0576
- Latitude
- 55.34258
- Longitude
- -2.82460
- Altitude
- 310 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Footprint
- 0.46 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1770); Other (1858); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1963); Other (1965); Other (1979); Other (1987)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2294
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54020
- National record
- record NT 40 NE 20; monument 54020
- Wikidata
- Q31104938
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