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Newton Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3253
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3253 (3253)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 4970 0796
- Latitude
- 55.36308
- Longitude
- -2.79505
- Altitude
- 320 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- 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 Map Depiction (1770); Other (1858); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1963); Other (1965); Other (1979); Other (1987)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2255
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54028
- National record
- record NT 40 NE 28; monument 54028
- Wikidata
- Q31104951
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